14 Bible Verses about Not Helping Widows
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You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
"If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart."
"Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.
