Bible Verses about “widows”

“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”

“¶ The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”

“Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.”

“But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.”

“If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;”

“And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”

“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.”

“So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.”

“And she [was] a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served [God] with fastings and prayers night and day.”

“¶ Honour widows that are widows indeed.”

“And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.”

“And he called [unto him] his disciples, and saith unto them, ‹Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:›”

“‹For all› [they] ‹did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had,› [even] ‹all her living.›”

“¶ And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.”

“And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.”

“But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.”

“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.”

“Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.”

“The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.”

“¶ The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.”

“And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.”

“‹Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.›”

“To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!”

“And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, ‹Weep not.›”

“And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare [him] stood still. And he said, ‹Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.›”

“¶ And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.”

“Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.”

“And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.”

“Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.”