8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows
Most Relevant Verses
and she was a widow eightyfour years old, who never left the temple, worshipping with fastings and prayers night and day.
and yet to none of them was Elijah sent, but to Sarepta in Sidonia, to a woman that was a widow.
And as he came near the gate of the city, lo! there was carried out dead an only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a great multitude from the city was with her.
And a certain poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
But I tell you in truth, that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land;
Then Peter arose, and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber; and all the widows came to him weeping, and showing the coats and cloaks which Dorcas made while she was with them.
And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling the saints and the widows, he presented her alive.