'Widows' in the Bible
[“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]
They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher punishment.”
But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.
They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive greater punishment.”
In those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.
So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the room upstairs. And all the widows approached him, weeping and showing him the robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was with them.
He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive.
I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.
But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when they are drawn away from Christ by desire, they want to marry
If any believing woman has widows in her family, she should help them, and the church should not be burdened, so that it can help those who are genuinely widows.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.