Widowers

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

`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

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

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;

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.

and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

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

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

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

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

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> ; — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them. — read the full passage →

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, --and all the people have said, Amen.

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

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

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 →

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> ;

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.

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

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

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

`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 →

He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

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; — read the full passage →

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,

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

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

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.

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. — read the full passage →

may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

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.

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

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

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

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 →

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

Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

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

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.

And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that <FI>is<Fi> in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — 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.

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

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,

For not My thoughts <FI>are<Fi> your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, --an affirmation of Jehovah, — read the full passage →

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

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

And thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who <FI>is<Fi> within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who <FI> are<Fi> in thy midst, in the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there,

and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who <FI>are<Fi> within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.

because the Lamb that <FI>is<Fi> in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved. — read the full passage →

And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart--not having necessity--and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart--to keep his own virgin--doth well; — read the full passage →

and if any one doth think <FI>it<Fi> to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin--let him marry.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any; — 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,

and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her; — read the full passage →

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

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

`When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother; — read the full passage →

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; — read the full passage →

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas--Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren-- — read the full passage →

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.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;

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

have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain; — read the full passage →

but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →