8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows
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being then a widow of about fourscore and four years old: she was assiduously in the temple, night and day religiously employ'd in fastings and prayers:
yet to none of them was Elias sent, except to one widow in Sarepta, a city of Sidon.
as he drew near the gate of the city, there was a dead man just then carrying out to be buried, who was his mother's only son, and she a widow: and many people of the town came with her.
and there came a certain poor widow, who threw in two mites, to the value of a farthing.
I assure you, though there were many widows in Israel, when the heaven had furnished no rain for three years and a half, and a great famine spread through all the land:
Peter immediately went with them, and when he was come, they conducted him to the upper chamber: and all the widows advanc'd to him weeping, and shew'd the robes and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.
Peter lent her his hand, and lift her up; and having called the saints and widows, he presented her alive.