Taking Care Of Widows

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

honour widows who are really widows; — read the full passage →

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict; — read the full passage →

`When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother; — read the full passage →

A widow--let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow; — read the full passage →

`At the end of three years thou dost bring out all the tithe of thine increase in that year, and hast placed <FI>it<Fi> within thy gates; — read the full passage →

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,

Jesus, therefore, having seen <FI>his<Fi> mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;'

And Boaz saith to his young man who is set over the reapers, `Whose <FI>is<Fi> this young person?' — read the full passage →

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, <FI>Is<Fi> God in His holy habitation.

Then come unto Jesus do they from Jerusalem--scribes and Pharisees--saying, — read the full passage →

And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee; — read the full passage →

With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler <FI>is<Fi> His truth.

for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord--

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.