God caring for widows

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• Psalms 68:5

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

• Isaiah 54:4–5

  Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

• James 1:27

  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.

• 1 Timothy 5:3

  Honour widows that are widows indeed.

• 1 Timothy 5:5

  Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

• Psalms 146:9

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

• Deuteronomy 27:19

  Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

• Exodus 22:22

  Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

• Psalms 147:3

  He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

• 1 Timothy 5:9

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

• Jeremiah 49:11

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

• Malachi 3:5

  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

• 1 Timothy 5:3–16

  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. …

• Mark 12:40

  Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

• Deuteronomy 14:28–29

  At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

• Exodus 22:22–24

  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.

• Luke 18:1–8

  And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. …

• Acts 6:1–15

  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. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. …

• Deuteronomy 15:11

  For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

• Proverbs 15:25

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

• Luke 7:11–17

  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. …

• Isaiah 1:17

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

• Ruth 4:14

  And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.

• Matthew 25:40

  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

• Acts 6:1

  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.

• Deuteronomy 10:18

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

• 1 Timothy 5:8

  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.

• 1 Timothy 5:4

  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.

• Acts 6:1–7

  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. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. …

• Deuteronomy 24:19

  When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

• Psalms 82:3

  Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

• Ezekiel 16:49

  Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

• Revelation 1:1

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

• James 1:12

  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

• Jeremiah 22:3

  Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

• Mark 12:41–44

  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: …

• Deuteronomy 14:29

  And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

• 1 Timothy 5:14

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

• Zechariah 7:10

  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.

• Deuteronomy 24:17

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