Taking Care Of Widows

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!”

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. — read the full passage →

For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

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.