Widow: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

You must not mistreat any widow or orphan. …

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.

Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

…and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you. …

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. …

When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her. …

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

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

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

…then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

…to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

…if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

…then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Honor the widows who are truly widows. …

A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, faithful to her husband, …

If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.