Thematic Bible: Importunity, examples of


Thematic Bible



But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.

I say to you, Although he will not get up and give them to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.

at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.





And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.


And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, that I speak yet but this time! Perhaps there may be ten found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.


And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.


Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;




The courtier says to him, Sir, come down ere my child die.


But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.

I say to you, Although he will not get up and give them to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.

at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.





And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.


And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, that I speak yet but this time! Perhaps there may be ten found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.


And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.


Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;




The courtier says to him, Sir, come down ere my child die.