15 Bible Verses about Not Helping Widows
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Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, for ye devour widows' houses: and that, under a colour of praying long prayers, wherefore ye shall receive greater damnation.
and devour widows' houses: and that, under a colour of long praying. These shall receive greater damnation."
which devour widows' houses, and that under a colour of long praying: The same shall receive greater damnation."
that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;
wherethrough the poor are oppressed on every side, and the innocents of my people are therewith robbed of judgment: that widows may be your prey, and that ye may rob the fatherless.
For they maintain the barren, and make them that they cannot bear, and unto widows they do no good.
Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?
Therefore shall the LORD have no pleasure in their young men, neither favour their fatherless and widows. For they are all together hypocrites and wicked, and all their mouths speak folly. After all this shall not the LORD's wrath cease, but yet his hand shall be stretched out still.
In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.
Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."
I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
In those days, as the number of the disciples grew, there arose a grudge among the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were despised in the daily ministration.
