Bible Verses of Widows

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.`

Zechariah 7:10

their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.

Psalms 78:64

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

Psalms 68:5

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow`s boundary stones in place.

Proverbs 15:25

“Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her.

Numbers 30:9

The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third.

Mark 12:21

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children.

Mark 12:20

“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.

Mark 12:19

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers 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.

Malachi 3:5

And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.

Luke 18:6

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won`t eventually come and attack me!`”

Luke 18:5

“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don`t fear God or care what people think,

Luke 18:4

And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.`

Luke 18:3

Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.

Luke 4:26

I 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.

Luke 4:25

There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,

Luke 2:36

They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.

Job 24:21

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.

Job 24:9

They drive away the orphan`s donkey and take the widow`s ox in pledge.

Job 24:3

Religion 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.

James 1:27

Your 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.

Isaiah 1:23

They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.

Ezekiel 44:22

“Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.

Exodus 22:22

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

Deuteronomy 24:22

When 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.

Deuteronomy 24:21

When 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.

Deuteronomy 24:20

When 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.

Deuteronomy 24:19

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

Deuteronomy 24:18

Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:17

He 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.

Acts 9:41

Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

Acts 9:39

In 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.

Acts 6:1

If 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.

1 Timothy 5:16

Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.

1 Timothy 5:15

So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.

1 Timothy 5:14

Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to.

1 Timothy 5:13

Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge.

1 Timothy 5:12

As 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.

1 Timothy 5:11

and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord`s people, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.

1 Timothy 5:10

No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,

1 Timothy 5:9

Give the people these instructions, so that no one may be open to blame.

1 Timothy 5:7

But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

1 Timothy 5:6

The 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.

1 Timothy 5:5

Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.

1 Timothy 5:3

Also, 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.

1 Kings 11:26

Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.

1 Corinthians 7:8