Bible verses about "widows" | MSTC

¹ In the time when the judges judged, there fell a dearth in the land. Wherefore a certain man of Bethlehem Judah went for to sojourn in the country of Moab with his wife and two sons. ² The name of the man was Elimelech, and his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion and they were Ephraimites, out of Bethlehem Judah. And when they came into the land of Moab, they continued there. ³ And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she remained with her two sons ⁴ which took them wives of the nations of the Moabites: the one's name Orpah and the other's Ruth. And when they had dwelled there about a ten years, ⁵ Mahlon and Chilion died also; even both two of them, so that the wife was left desolate of her two sons and of her husband thereto. ⁶ Then she stood up with her daughters-in-law and returned from the country of Moab: for she had heard say, being in the country of Moab, how that the LORD hath visited his people and given them food. ⁷ Wherefore she departed out of the place where she was, and her two daughters with her. And as they went by the way returning unto the land of Judah, ⁸ Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, "Go, and return each of you unto your mother's house. The LORD deal as kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me." ⁹ And the LORD grant you that you may find rest, either of you in the house of her husband." And so she kissed them. ¹⁰ Then they cried and wept and said unto her, "We will go with thee unto thy folk." ¹¹ But Naomi said, "Turn again my daughters: for what cause would you go with me? Think you that there be any more children in my bowels to be your husbands? ¹² Turn again my daughters and go: for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, also if I took a man this night: yea, and though I had already borne sons? ¹³ Would ye tarry after them, till they were of age? Or would ye for them so long refrain from taking of husbands? Not so, my daughters: for it grieveth me much for your sakes, that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me." ¹⁴ Therewith they cried and wept again. Howbeit, Orpah kissed her mother-in-law but Ruth abode still by her. ¹⁵ Then she said, "See, thy sister-in-law is gone back again unto her people and unto her god: return thou after her." ¹⁶ But Ruth said, "Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from after thee. For whither thou goest, I will go. And where thou dwellest, there I will dwell. Thy people are my people, and thy God is my God. ¹⁷ Where thou diest, I will die, and there will be buried. The LORD do so and so to me, except that death only depart thee and me asunder." ¹⁸ When she saw that she would needs go with her, she left speaking unto her. ¹⁹ And so they went both together until they came to Bethlehem. And when they were come to Bethlehem, it was noised through all the city, and the women said, "Is not this Naomi?" ²⁰ But she said unto them, "Call me not Naomi: call me Mara, for the Almighty hath made me very bitter. ²¹ I went out full: but the LORD hath brought me home empty. Why should ye then call me Naomi: seeing the LORD hath humbled me, and the Almighty hath brought me unto adversity?" ²² And the time when Naomi with Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, returned out of the country of Moab and came to Bethlehem was in the beginning of barley harvest.

⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.

¹³ He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me.

¹⁷ Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD.

² wherethrough the poor are oppressed on every side, and the innocents of my people are therewith robbed of judgment: that widows may be your prey, and that ye may rob the fatherless.

¹¹ Thou shalt leave thy fatherless children behind thee, and I will keep them, and thy widows shall take their comfort in me.

³⁷ And she had been a widow about four score and four years of age, which went never out of the temple, but served God there with fasting and prayer night and day.

⁴¹ And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people put money into the treasury. And many that were rich, cast in much. ⁴² And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. ⁴³ And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury. ⁴⁴ For they all did cast in of their superfluity: But she of her poverty, did cast in all that she had, even all her living."

³⁶ And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher: which was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity.

³⁹ The wife is bound to the law as long as her husband liveth. If her husband sleep, she is at liberty to marry with whom she will only in the Lord.

³ So then, if while the man liveth she couple herself with another man, she shall be counted a wedlock-breaker. But if the man be dead she is free from the law: so that she is no wedlock-breaker, though she couple herself with another man.

⁹ but and if they cannot abstain, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn.

²⁷ Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

²⁵ The LORD will break down the house of the proud; but he shall make fast the borders of the widow.

¹⁰ Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart." ¹¹ And it fortuned after that, that he went into a city called Nain, and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. ¹² When he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, which was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and much people of the city was with her. ¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, "Weep not." ¹⁴ And he went and touched the coffin, and they that bare him stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say unto thee, arise." ¹⁵ And the dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.

⁹ The LORD careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow. As for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.

⁴⁷ which devour widows' houses, and that under a colour of long praying: The same shall receive greater damnation."

⁸ If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

¹⁶ And if any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them minister unto them, and let not the congregation be charged: that it may have sufficient for them that are widows indeed.

³ Honour widows which are true widows. ⁴ If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God. ⁵ She that is a very widow, and friendless, putteth her trust in God, and continueth in supplication and prayer night and day: ⁶ but she that liveth in pleasure, is dead even yet alive.

⁵ He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

²² Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child: ²³ If ye shall trouble them, they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry; ²⁴ and then will my wrath wax hot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.