Widows

• Seven

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

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

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

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.

• Prayer

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

• Elect
• Angel
• Backsliders

Honour widows that are widows indeed. 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. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

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

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

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.

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.

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

• Money
• Brass
• Temple

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 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.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

• Paul
• Continence

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

• Hebrew
• Congregations
• Poor

And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

• Strangers

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

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

• Priest

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

• Asceticism
• Asceticism
• Bigotry

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 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. read more And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people. And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about. show less

And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.

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

• Asceticism
• Asceticism
• Bigotry

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 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. read more And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. show less

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.

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.

• Fasting
• Prayer
• Temple

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.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.