Widow

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

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

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 →

And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →

Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen. — read the full passage →

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

Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, — read the full passage →

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. — read the full passage →

and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great multitude. — read the full passage →

In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

And he looked up, and saw the rich men that were casting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation.

And he called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. — read the full passage →

then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.

to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;

By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea:

Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

If I have withheld the poor fromtheirdesire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. — read the full passage →

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.

they that devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.

They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. — read the full passage →

And Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? — read the full passage →

But if a priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

Paul, calledto bean apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, — read the full passage →

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

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.

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. — read the full passage →