'Widows' in the Bible

and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.

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

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, neither will he have mercy on their fatherless and on their widows; for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Their widows are increased to me more than the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a spoiler at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall upon her suddenly.

Therefore give up their children to the famine, and deliver them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of children and be widows; and let their men be swept off by death, their young men be smitten by the sword in battle.

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

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they devour souls; they take away treasure and precious things; they increase her widows in the midst of her;

who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.

But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.

But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration.

And Peter rising up went with them, whom, when arrived, they brought up into the upper chamber; and all the widows stood by him weeping and shewing him the body-coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

And having given her his hand, he raised her up, and having called the saints and the widows, presented her living.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.

Honour widows who are really widows;

But younger widows decline; for when they grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

If any believing man or woman have widows, let them impart relief to them, and let not the assembly be charged, that it may impart relief to those that are widows indeed.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.