Bible verses about "widows" | NSB

¹ There was a famine in the land in the days when the judges ruled. And a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. ² The man was Elimelech, and his wife was Naomi, and the two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. They went to Moab and stayed there. ³ Naomi’s husband Elimelech died. And she was left with her two sons. ⁴ They took two women of Moab as their wives. One was Orpah and the other Ruth. They made their home there for about ten years. ⁵ Mahlon and Chilion also died. Naomi was left all alone. She had no husband or sons. ⁶ Some time later Naomi heard that Jehovah blessed his people by giving them good crops. So she got ready to leave Moab with her daughters-in-law. ⁷ They started out together to go back to Judah. ⁸ On the way she said to them: »Go back home and stay with your mothers. Jehovah should be as good to you as you have been to me and to those who have died. ⁹ »May Jehovah make it possible for each of you to marry again and have a home.« Then Naomi kissed them good-bye and they cried. ¹⁰ They said to her: »No! We will go with you to your people.« ¹¹ »You must go back, my daughters,« Naomi replied. »Why do you want to come with me? Do you think I could have sons again for you to marry? ¹² »Return home, my daughters. I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and got married and had sons, ¹³ »would you wait for them to grow up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that is not possible. Jehovah has turned against me. I feel sorry for you.« ¹⁴ They started crying again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye and went back home. Ruth held on to her. ¹⁵ Naomi said to her: »Ruth, your sister-in-law went back to her people and her gods. Go back home with her. ¹⁶ Ruth replied: »Do not ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. ¹⁷ »Wherever you die, I will die. That is where I will be buried. May Jehovah’s worst punishment come upon me if I let anything but death separate me from you!« ¹⁸ When she saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said no more. ¹⁹ The two of them traveled to Bethlehem. When they arrived at Bethlehem the whole town was excited because of them. The women said: »Is this Naomi?« ²⁰ She said: »Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter. ²¹ »I went away full, and Jehovah sent me back empty. Why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that Jehovah has given witness against me, and the Almighty has brought sorrow to me?« ²² So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab. Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, came with her. They came to Bethlehem in the first days of the barley harvest.

⁹ »You have sent widows away empty-handed. You crush the arms of the orphans.

¹³ »The blessing of the wretched came upon me. I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

¹⁷ »Learn to do good (well) (right). Seek justice. Correct oppressors. Defend orphans. Plead the case of widows.«

² They deprive the poor of justice. They take away the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and rob orphans.

¹¹ »Abandon your orphans, and I will keep them alive. Your widows can trust me.«

³⁷ She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.

⁴¹ He sat down near the collection boxes and observed how the crowd dropped money into the boxes. Many that were rich dropped in much. ⁴² A poor widow came along and dropped in two mites. ⁴³ He told his disciples: »Truly I tell you this poor widow gave more then all the others who gave to the collection box. ⁴⁴ »They all gave out of their surplus. She gave out of her poverty. She gave all that she owned, all her living.«

³⁶ Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher was a very old prophetess.

³⁹ The wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

³ So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress. If the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

⁹ But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. It is better to marry than to be inflamed [with lust].

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.

²⁵ Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud and he will establish the border of the widow.

¹⁰ »Do not oppress the widow. Do not oppress the fatherless. Do not oppress the stranger and do not oppress the poor. And you should not devise evil in your heart against your brother. ¹¹ After that he, his disciples and a great crowd went to a city called Nain. ¹² When he came near the gate of the city he saw people carrying a dead person. It was the only son of a widow. Many people were with her. ¹³ When the Lord saw her he had sympathy for her. »Do not cry,« he said. ¹⁴ He came near the casket and touched it. The bearers stood still. He said, »Young man arise.« ¹⁵ He who was dead sat up and spoke and he was returned to his mother.

⁹ Jehovah protects the strangers. He supports the fatherless and the widow, but he overthrows the way of the wicked.

⁴⁷ »They devour widows’ houses. They offer long prayers to show off in front of others. They shall receive great condemnation.«

⁸ If any do not provide for his own, and specially his own household, he denies the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁶ If any woman that believes has dependant widows, she must assist them and not let the congregation be burdened. Then it can assist those who are actually widows.

³ Honor widows that are truly widows. ⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God. ⁵ Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in supplications and prayers day and night. ⁶ But she that gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

⁵ In his holy habitation God is a father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows.

²² »Do not mistreat any widow or orphan. ²³ »If you do, I, Jehovah, will answer them when they cry out to me for help, ²⁴ and I will become angry and kill you in war. Your wives will become widows, and your children will be fatherless.