{"id":142,"date":"2006-10-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2006\/10\/verse-of-the-day-will-not-god.html"},"modified":"2006-10-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T12:00:00","slug":"verse-of-the-day-will-not-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/10\/verse-of-the-day-will-not-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Verse of the Day: &#8216;Will not God grant justice?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><span> <\/p>\n<p>Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to  lose heart. He said, &#8220;In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God  nor had respect for people. 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