Widow

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

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

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 Jesus having sat down over-against the treasury, was beholding how the multitude do put brass into the treasury, and many rich were putting in much, — read the full passage →

The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I <FI>am<Fi> ;

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, `Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.' — read the full passage →

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

Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

A widow--let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband, — read the full passage →

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

And Boaz hath gone up to the gate, and sitteth there, and lo, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he saith, `Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one;' and he turneth aside and sitteth down. — read the full passage →

And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

Leave thine orphans--I do keep alive, And thy widows--on Me trust ye,

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

And it came to pass, on the morrow, he was going on to a city called Nain, and there were going with him many of his disciples, and a great multitude, — read the full passage →

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury--rich men, — read the full passage →

and she <FI>is<Fi> a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,

Thy princes <FI>are<Fi> apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

yet Michael, the chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking judgment, but said, `The Lord rebuke thee!'

messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!

Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept--called, — read the full passage →

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, `Give me to drink;'

who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure sicknesses, — read the full passage →

Then I have caused you to dwell in this place, In the land that I gave to your fathers, From age even unto age.

To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

By fearful things in righteousness Thou answerest us, O God of our salvation, The confidence of all far off ends of earth and sea.

My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

And Naomi hath an acquaintance of her husband's, a man mighty in wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name <FI>is<Fi> Boaz. — read the full passage →

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up! — read the full passage →

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

and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as <FI>in<Fi> her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, — read the full passage →

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

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.

And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity,

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, saith unto Ahab, `Jehovah, God of Israel, liveth, before whom I have stood, there is not these years dew and rain, except according to my word.' — read the full passage →