'Widows' in the Bible
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows houses, even while for a pretence ye make long prayers: therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.
they that devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.
But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;
who devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation.
Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:
If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it mat relieve them that are widows indeed.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.