Bible Verses about “god caring for widows”

“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.”

“"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.”

“But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.”

“Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.”

“If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;”

“For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.”

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

“Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.”

“and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.”

“At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:”

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

“He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,”

“Honor widows who are widows indeed.”

“But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."”

“whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.”

“Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.”

“I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.”

“The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.”

“These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;”

“I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.”

“But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.”

“If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.”

“The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.”

“But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.”

“Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.”

“Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.”

“Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.”

“They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.”

“Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."”

“They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,”

“and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.”

“For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."”

“All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.”

“Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,”

“being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.”

“Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?”

“I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"”

“"Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.”

“saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.”

“A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'”

“He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,”

“yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"”

“The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.”

“Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.”

“'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'”

“But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;”

“having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.”

“For already some have turned aside after Satan.”