Thematic Bible: Importunity, examples of


Thematic Bible



But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her justice, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"





I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


He said, "Oh do not let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."


The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."


Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.




The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."


But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her justice, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"





I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


He said, "Oh do not let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."


The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."


Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.




The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."