'Widows' in the Bible
And {I will become angry}, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children orphans.
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and [the] arms of orphans were crushed.
Their survivors are buried through the plague, and their widows do not weep.
A father to orphans and a judge for widows [is] God in his holy habitation.
His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep.
Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men, and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows, for everyone [was] godless and an evildoer, and every mouth [was] speaking folly. In all of this his anger did not turn away, and still his hand [is] stretched out.
to guide [the] needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.
Their widows will be more numerous before me than [the] sand of [the] seas. I have brought to them, against [the] mothers of young men, a destroyer at noon. I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror.
{Therefore} give their children to the famine, and hand them over to [the] {power} of [the] sword, and let their wives be bereaved and widows, and let their men be killed by death, their young men struck dead [by the] sword in the battle.
Leave your orphans. I will let [them] live. And your widows, let them trust in me."
We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows.
And he knew their widows, and he devastated their cities, and [the] land was appalled, and {everyone in it} at the sound of his roar.
The conspiracy of its prophets in the midst of her [is] like a roaring lion [that] is tearing prey. They devour people, and they take wealth and treasure; they make its widows numerous in the midst of her.
who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy [prayers] for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"
But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months while a great famine took place over all the land.
who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy [prayers] for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"
Now in these days, [as] the disciples were increasing [in number], a complaint arose by the {Greek-speaking Jews} against the {Hebraic Jews} because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution [of food].
So Peter got up [and] accompanied them. [When he] arrived, they brought [him] up to the upstairs room, and all the widows came to him, weeping and showing [him] tunics and [other] clothing that Dorcas used to make [while she] was with them.
And he gave her [his] hand [and] raised her up. And he called the saints and the widows [and] presented her alive.
Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: [It is] good for them if they remain as I [am].
But refuse younger widows, for whenever their physical desires lead them away from Christ, they want to marry,
Therefore I want younger [widows] to marry, to bear children, to manage a household, to give the adversary no opportunity for reproach.
If any believing woman has widows, she must help them, and the church must not be burdened, in order that it may help those [who are] truly widows.
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.