'Widows' in the Bible
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.
who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,
who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,
And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.
and having given her his hand, he lifted her up, and having called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive,
And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;
and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,
If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.