Widowers

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

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

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.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

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

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him. — read the full passage →

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

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 →

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord. — read the full passage →

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.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. — read the full passage →

Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

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

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.

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

In you have they set light by father and mother; in your midst have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

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

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well. — read the full passage →

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything. — read the full passage →

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

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

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. — read the full passage →

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers. — read the full passage →

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 perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →