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 unspotted from the world.

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

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. — read the full passage →

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother; — read the full passage →

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge; — read the full passage →

At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: — read the full passage →

Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold, thy son!

Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? — read the full passage →

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

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

And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. — read the full passage →

He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his wings shalt thou take refuge: His truth is a shield and a buckler.

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.