Taking Care Of Widows

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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

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

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

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

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge: — read the full passage →

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

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians 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 came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. — read the full passage →

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

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