15 Bible Verses about Not Helping Widows
Most Relevant Verses
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,
Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.
who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow:
thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, neither will he have mercy on their fatherless and on their widows; for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
And 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 false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration.
