'Widows' in the Bible
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
Yet Elijah wasn't sent to a single one of those widows except to one at Zarephath in Sidon.
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
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 the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
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 man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.