76 Bible Verses about Widows

A father of orphans and a judge of widows, God in his holy habitation.

He did the judgment of the orphan and the widow, and he loved the stranger to give to him bread and a garment

Jehovah watched the strangers he will restore the orphan and the widow, and he will overturn the way of the unjust

The house of the proud will Jehovah sweep away, and he will set up the bound of the widow.

Leave thine orphans, I will preserve alive, and thy widows shall trust upon me.

And Jesus having sat over against the royal treasury, saw how the crowds cast money into the treasury: and many rich cast in much. And one poor widow, having come, cast in two small coins, which is a farthing. And having called his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, That this poor widow has cast into the royal treasury, more than all they casting into the treasury:read more.
For all they cast in out of the abundance to them; and she, out of her want, cast in all things which she had, her whole living.

And having looked np, he saw the rich casting their gifts into the royal treasury. And he also saw a certain poor widow casting there two small coins. And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all:read more.
For all they, of that abounding to them, have cast in to the gifts of God: and she from her want cast in all the living which she had.

And it was in continuation he went to a city called Nain; and sufficient of his disciples went with him, and a great crowd. And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, he dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow; and a sufficient crowd of the city was with her. And having seen her, the Lord felt compassion for her and said to her, Weep not.read more.
And having come, he touched the coffin, and they bearing stood. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, arise. And the dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

And he spake to them a parable, that they must always pray, and not lose courage; Saying, There was a certain judge in a certain city, fearing not God, and not occupied about man: And a widow was in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.read more.
And he would not for a time: and after these he said in himself, And if I fear not God, and am not occupied about man; Yet because this widow produces fatigue to me, I will avenge her, lest in the end, coming, she give me a blow under the eyes.

Cursing he turning away the judgment of the stranger, the orphan and the widow: and all the people said, Amen.

Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict. If afflicting, thou shalt afflict him, if crying, he shall cry to me, hearing, I will hear his cry. And my anger kindling, I killed you with the sword; and your wives were widows, and your sons orphans.

He did evil to the barren; she will not bear: andhewill not do good to the widow. And he drew the mighty in his power: he will rise up and none shall be sure in living.

The widow and the stranger they will slay, and they will kill the orphan.

Wo to those decreeing not decrees, and they wrote writings of labor; To turn away the judgment of the powerless, and to strip off judgment of the distressed of my people, for widows to be their plunder, and they will plunder orphans. And what will ye do for the day of reviewing, and for the tempest coming from far off? upon whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?read more.
Not to bow under the bound, and they shall fell under the slain; in all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out

Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judgment and justice, and deliver him taken by force, from the hand of him oppressing: ye shall not be violent, ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, and ye shall not pour but innocent blood in this place. For if doing, ye shall do this word, and kings came into the gates of this house, sitting to David upon his throne, riding in chariots and upon horses, he send his servants and his people. And if ye will not bear these words, by myself I sware, says Jehovah, that this house shall be for a desolation.

A conspiracy of her prophets in her midst as a roaring lion rending the prey; they consumed the soul; they will take the wealth and the precious thing; they multiplied her widows in her midst

Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict.

Wo to those decreeing not decrees, and they wrote writings of labor; To turn away the judgment of the powerless, and to strip off judgment of the distressed of my people, for widows to be their plunder, and they will plunder orphans.

They made light of father and mother in thee: they did with violence to the stranger in the midst of thee: they oppresed the orphan and the widow in thee.

And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.

And he said to them in his teaching, Look from the scribes, wishing to walk in robes, and greetings in market-places, And first seats in synagogues, and first place at tables in first meals: They eating in widows' houses, and praying long for a pretext: these shall receive more abundant judgment.

And all the people hearing, he said to his disciples, Hold from the scribes, wishing to walk about in robes, and loving greetings in the markets, and precedencies in assemblies, and the first places at tables at suppers; Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence pray at great length; these shall receive more abundant judgment.

When thou shalt reap thy harvest in thy field and didst forget a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not turn back to take it: to the stranger and to the orphan and to the widow shall it be; so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the doing of thy hands.

From the end of three years thou shalt bring all the tenth of thy produce in that year, and place thou it in thy gates: And the Levite came (because no portion and inheritance to him with thee) and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy gates, and ate and were satisfied; so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do.

And rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the orphan and the widow, which are in the midst of thee in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Thou shalt not turn away the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless; and thou shalt not take as a pledge the garment of the widow.

When thou shalt finish to tithe all the tenth part of thy produce, in the third year the year of the tenth part, and thou gavest it to the Levite and to the stranger and to the orphan and to the widow, and they ate in thy gates and were satisfied.

Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.

Honour widows, truly widows.

And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God. And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day. And she living luxuriously is dead, living.read more.
And these things proclaim, that they might be irreprehensible. And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving. Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man, Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work. And the younger widows reject: for when they conduct themselves arrogantly against Christ, they wish to marry: Having judgment, for they put away the first faith. And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming. I wish therefore the younger to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to him opposing for reproach. For already have some turned aside after Satan. If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows.

And I say to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain also as I. And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire.

Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

And rejoice in thy festival, thou and thy son and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, which are in thy gates:

And Ruth will say, Thou shalt not urge upon me to forsake thee, to turn back from after thee: for where thou shalt go, I will go; and where thou shalt lodge, I will lodge: thy people my people, and thy God my God: Where thou shalt die, I will die, and there will I be buried: thus will Jehovah do to me, and thus will he add, for death shall separate between me and between thee.

And Elijah will say to her, Thou shalt not fear; go and do according to thy word: but make to me from thence a little cake at first, and bring forth to me, and for thee and for thy son thou shalt make at last For thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, The bucket of flour shall not be spent, and the cruse of oil shall not fail until the day Jehovah shall give rain upon the face of the earth.

They will lead away the ass of the orphans, and they will take for pledge, the widow's ox.

The praise of him perishing will come upon me, and I shall cause the heart of the widow to rejoice.

And Anna was a prophetess, daughter of flannel, of the tribe of Aser : she advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day. And she having stood at that hour, confessed to the Lord, and spake concerning him to all awaiting redemption in Jerusalem.

And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land; And to none of them was Elias sent, except to Sarepta, of Sidon, to a widow-woman.

And it was in continuation he went to a city called Nain; and sufficient of his disciples went with him, and a great crowd. And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, he dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow; and a sufficient crowd of the city was with her. And having seen her, the Lord felt compassion for her and said to her, Weep not.read more.
And having come, he touched the coffin, and they bearing stood. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, arise. And the dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother. And fear took all; and they praised God, saying, That a great prophet has risen up among us; and That God has reviewed his people. And this word went out about him in all Judea, and in all the country round about.

And in those days, the disciples multiplying, there was a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were overlooked in the daily service.

And in Joppa was a certain disciple by name Tabitha, which interpreted is called Dorcas: she was full of good works and alms which she did. And it was in those days, having been sick, she died; and having washed, they laid her in an upper room. And Lydda being near Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter is in it, sent to him two men, beseeching not to hesitate to pass through even to them.read more.
And Peter having risen came with them. Whom having approached, they brought into the upper room: and all the widows stood before him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, being with them. And Peter having put them all without, having set the knees, prayed; and having turned back to the body he said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and having seen Peter, sat up. And having given her the hand, he raised her up, and having called the holy ones and the widows, he placed her living before them.

His sons shall be orphans, and his wife a widow.

For this upon their young men Jehovah shall not rejoice, and their orphans and their widows he will not compassionate; for they all are polluted and doing evil, and every mouth speaking folly. In all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out

Their widows were many to me above the sand of the seas: I brought to them against the mother a young man laying waste at noon: I caused to fall upon her suddenly wrath and terror.

We were orphans, no father; our mothers as widows.

If brethren shall dwell together and one of them died, and a son not to him, the wife of the dead shall not be without to a man a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and he took her to him for a wife, and he acted the husband's brother to her. And it is the first-born which she shall bear shall rise up upon the name of his brother the dead, and his name shall not be wiped from Israel And if the man shall not desire to take his brother's wife, and his brother's wife went up to the gate to the old men, and said, My husband's brother refused to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, and he would not act my husband's brother.read more.
And the old men of his city called to him and spake to him: and he stood and said, I desired not to take her. And his brother's wife drew near to him before the eyes of the old men, and drew off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and answered and said, Thus shall it be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother. And his name was called in Israel, The house of him having his shoe drawn off.

And Judah will say to Onan, go in to thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

And now that truly if I a blood relation: and also there is a blood relation nearer than I.

And also Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I bought to me for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; and the name of the dead shall not be cut off from his brethren and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

Teacher, Moses wrote to us, That if any one's brother die, and leave his wife, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother die. having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife.

And they Shall not take a widow and her thrust away, to them for wives: but virgins from the seed of the house of Israel, and a widow which shall be a widow from a priest, shall they take.

How sat the city alone being many in people she was as a widow: being many among the nations, being a leader in the provinces, she became for tribute.

Thou shalt not fear; for thou shalt not be ashamed: and thou shalt not be disgraced, and thou shalt not be put to shame, for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and thou shalt no more remember the reproach of thy widowhood. For thy Lord making thee; Jehovah of armies his name; and he redeeming thee, the Holy One of Israel; the God of the earth shall he be called.

As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief.

And Elimelech will die, the husband of Naomi; and she will be left, and her two sons.

Arise, go to Zarephath which is to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I commanded a widow woman to nourish thee there.

And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

And one poor widow, having come, cast in two small coins, which is a farthing.

And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day.

And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, he dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow; and a sufficient crowd of the city was with her.

And a widow was in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

And Peter having risen came with them. Whom having approached, they brought into the upper room: and all the widows stood before him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, being with them.

And it will be in the days of the judging of the judges, and there will be a famine in the land. And a man from the house of bread of Judah will go to sojourn in the field of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. And the name of the man Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi, and the name of his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites from the house of bread of Judah. And they will come to the field of Moab and be there. And Elimelech will die, the husband of Naomi; and she will be left, and her two sons.read more.
And they will take to them wives from the Moabitesses; the name of the one, Orpah, and the name of the second, Ruth: and they will dwell there about ten years. And Mahlon and Chilioh, also they two, will die; and the woman will be left of her two children and of her husband.

And David will come to his house to Jerusalem; and the king will take the ten women, the concubines which he left to watch the house, and he will give them to the house of watch, and he will nourish them, and he went not in to them. And they will be bound together till the day of their death to live widows.

His surviving one shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

Wail as the virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

And one poor widow, having come, cast in two small coins, which is a farthing. And having called his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, That this poor widow has cast into the royal treasury, more than all they casting into the treasury: For all they cast in out of the abundance to them; and she, out of her want, cast in all things which she had, her whole living.

And Anna was a prophetess, daughter of flannel, of the tribe of Aser : she advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day.

Honour widows, truly widows. And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God. And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day.read more.
And she living luxuriously is dead, living. And these things proclaim, that they might be irreprehensible. And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving. Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man, Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work. And the younger widows reject: for when they conduct themselves arrogantly against Christ, they wish to marry: Having judgment, for they put away the first faith. And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming. I wish therefore the younger to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to him opposing for reproach. For already have some turned aside after Satan. If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows.