Bible Verses about “widow”
The Bible contains 26 verses about widow across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.”
“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.”
“"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.”
“If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;”
“and my wrath will grow 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 defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
“Honor widows who are widows indeed.”
“A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.”
“He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,”
“for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."”
“Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.”
“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.”
“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 will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.”
“You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full."”
“Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.”
“Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."”
“Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil."”
“So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.”
“It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn't another container." The oil stopped flowing.”
“Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."”
“It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.”
“She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.”
“Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."”