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.

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

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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 →

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

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

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 Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?” — read the full passage →

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

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 →

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

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.