God Caring For Widows

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

“Don’t be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. — read the full passage →

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. — read the full passage →

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him. — read the full passage →

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

In you have they set light by father and mother; in your midst have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. — read the full passage →

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. — read the full passage →

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.

Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him. — read the full passage →

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

At the seven years’ end, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? — read the full passage →

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? — read the full passage →

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, — read the full passage →

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, — read the full passage →

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; — read the full passage →

She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck of the sword in battle.