'Widows' in the Bible

And I'll be angry and will kill you with swords, and your wives will become widows and your children orphans.

He executes justice for the orphan and the widows, loves the foreigner, and gives them food and clothing."

so the descendants of Levi who have no tribal allotment as you do foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities may come, eat, and be satisfied. That way, the LORD your God shall bless you in everything you do."

Rejoice in your festival you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the descendants of Levi, and foreigners, orphans, and widows, who live in your cities.

"When you have finished your harvest, reserve the tithe in the third year (the year of the tithe), and give the entire tithe to the descendants of Levi, to the foreigners, to the orphans, and to the widows, so they may eat and be satisfied in your cities.

"I've removed the holy offering from my house and given it to the descendants of Levi, to the foreigners, to the orphans, and to the widows just as you have commanded me. I haven't violated or forgotten your commands. I haven't eaten any part of it while mourning, nor removed any part of it while unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I've obeyed the voice of the LORD my God and did all that he commanded me.

You sent away widows empty-handed, and broke the outstretched arms of orphans.

"They prey on the barren woman, and do no favors for widows.

Those who were about to die blessed me, and I made widows sing for joy.

A father to orphans and an advocate for widows is God in his holy dwelling place.

The priests fell by the sword, yet their widows couldn't weep.

The wicked kill widows and foreigners; they murder orphans.

The LORD stands guard over the stranger; he supports both widows and orphans, but makes the path of the wicked slippery.

Therefore the Lord does not have pity on their young men, and has no compassion on their orphans and widows, because each of them was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.

to deprive the needy of justice and to rob the poor of my people of their rights, so that widows may become their spoil and so that they may plunder orphans!

I'll make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At noontime I'll send a destroyer against the mother of a young man. I'll cause terror and anguish to come to her unexpectedly.

Therefore, make their children undergo famine, and deliver them over to death in time of war. May their women be childless widows! May their men be slaughtered! May their young men be slain by the sword in battle!

Leave your orphans. I'll keep them alive. Let your widows trust in me."

We are now orphans without fathers and our mothers are like widows.

There's a conspiracy of prophets within her, and like a roaring lion tearing its prey, they've devoured people, and confiscated treasures, and taken precious things. They've added to the population of widows within her.

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You devour widows' houses and say long prayers to cover it up. Therefore, you will receive greater condemnation!

They devour widows' houses and say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!"

I'm telling you the truth there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when it didn't rain for three years and six months and there was a severe famine everywhere in the land.

Yet Elijah wasn't sent to a single one of those widows except to one at Zarephath in Sidon.

They devour widows' houses and say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!"

In those days, as the number of the disciples was growing larger and larger, a complaint was made by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him upstairs. All the widows gathered around Peter, crying and showing him all the shirts and coats Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

He extended his hand and helped her get up. Then he called the saints, including the widows, and gave her back to them alive.

I say to those who are unmarried, especially to widows: It is good for them to remain like me.

Honor widows who have no other family members to care for them.

A widow may be put on the widows' list if she is at least sixty years old and has been the wife of one husband.

But do not include younger widows on your list. For whenever their natural desires cause them to lose their devotion to the Messiah, they want to remarry.

Therefore, I want younger widows to remarry, have children, manage their homes, and not give the enemy any chance to ridicule them.

For some widows have already turned away to follow Satan.

If any woman is a believer and has relatives who are widows, she should help them. The church should not be burdened, so it can help those widows who have no other family members to care for them.

A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.