'Widows' in the Bible
and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.
His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.
Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one is profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.
Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them -- against the mother -- A young man -- a spoiler -- at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.
Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,
Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows.
A conspiracy of its prophets is in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.
who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,
who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,
And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.
and having given her his hand, he lifted her up, and having called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive,
And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;
honour widows who are really widows;
and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,
If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.
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