1Ti 5:9No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,1Ti 5:3Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.La 5:3We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.Eze 44:22They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.1Ti 5:6But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.Ex 22:22‘Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.Ps 78:64their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.Job 24:21They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.Ps 94:6They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.Nu 30:9‘Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her.Job 22:9And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.1Ti 5:16If any woman who is a believer has widows in her care, she should continue to help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need.Ps 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.Job 27:15The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.1Ti 5:5The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.Jer 49:11“Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.” ’Lu 21:1As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.Job 24:3They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.1Ti 5:14So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.1Ti 5:11As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry.Ps 68:5A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.Mr 12:21The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third.Job 29:13The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.Ge 38:19After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow’s clothes again.De 24:17Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.Lu 21:2He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.1Ti 5:1Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,1Co 7:8Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: it is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.Lu 21:3‘Truly I tell you,’ he said, ‘this poor widow has put in more than all the others.Pr 15:25The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow’s boundary stones in place.Mr 12:42But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few pence.Job 31:18but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow –Job 31:16‘If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,2Sa 14:5The king asked her, ‘What is troubling you?’ She said, ‘I am a widow; my husband is dead.Lu 2:37and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshipped night and day, fasting and praying.Isa 10:2to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.Lu 4:26Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.Lu 18:3And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, “Grant me justice against my adversary.”Lu 20:47They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.’Mr 12:40They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.’Le 21:14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,Ps 146:9The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.Ac 9:41He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for the believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive.Jer 15:8I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.Zec 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.”De 24:21When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.Mr 12:41Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.1Ki 17:7Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.1Sa 30:5David’s two wives had been captured – Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.Mr 12:43Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.Ex 22:24My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.Isa 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.De 24:20When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.De 10:18He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.Lu 4:25I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.2Ki 4:1The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.’Lu 18:5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!” ’Eze 22:25There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her.2Sa 2:2So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.Eze 22:7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and ill-treated the fatherless and the widow.Jas 1:27Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.Lu 7:12As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out – the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.Lu 7:11Soon afterwards, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him.De 16:14Be joyful at your festival – you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.Isa 1:23Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.Lu 18:1Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.Ac 9:39Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood round him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.De 25:5If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfil the duty of a brother-in-law to her.Mt 22:24‘Teacher,’ they said, ‘Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.La 1:1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.1Ki 17:9‘Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have instructed a widow there to supply you with food.’Jer 18:21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.Le 22:13But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father’s household as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food. No unauthorised person, however, may eat it.1Ti 5:4But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.De 25:9his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, ‘This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.’1Sa 27:3David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.2Sa 3:3his second, Kileab the son of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; the third, Absalom the son of Maakah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;Ru 4:10I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his home town. Today you are witnesses!’1Ki 17:20Then he cried out to the Lord, ‘Lord my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?’Isa 47:8‘Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, “I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.”De 24:19When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.Ge 38:14she took off her widow’s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.Ac 6:1In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.Lu 20:28‘Teacher,’ they said, ‘Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.Mr 12:19‘Teacher,’ they said, ‘Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.Ru 4:5Then Boaz said, ‘On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.’Re 18:7Give her as much torment and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. In her heart she boasts, “I sit enthroned as queen. I am not a widow; I will never mourn.”1Ki 17:10So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, ‘Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?’2Sa 20:3When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them but had no sexual relations with them. They were kept in confinement till the day of their death, living as widows.De 14:29so that the Levites (who have no land allotted to them or any inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.Ge 38:11Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, ‘Live as a widow in your father’s household until my son Shelah grows up.’ For he thought, ‘He may die too, just like his brothers.’ So Tamar went to live in her father’s household.De 16:11And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name – you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.1Ki 11:26Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.Jer 7:6if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,Isa 9:17Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.De 26:12When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.1Ki 7:14whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.De 26:13Then say to the Lord your God: ‘I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.Jer 22:3This is what the Lord says: do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.Mal 3:5‘So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud labourers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,’ says the Lord Almighty.