Bible verses about "widows" | Tyndale

³⁷ And she had bene a wedowe aboute .iiii. scoore and .iiii. yere which went never oute of the temple but served God with fastinge and prayer nyght and daye.

⁴¹ And Iesus sat over agaynst the treasury and behelde how the people put money in to the treasury. And many that were ryche cast in moch. ⁴² And ther cam a certayne povre widowe and she threwe in two mytes which make a farthynge. ⁴³ And he called vnto him his disciples and sayde vnto them: Verely I saye vnto you that this pover widowe hath cast moare in then all they which have caste into the treasury. ⁴⁴ For they all dyd cast in of their superfluyte: but she of her poverte dyd cast in all that she had eve all her livynge.

³⁶ And ther was a Prophetesse one Anna the doughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Aser: which was of a greate age and had lyved with an husbande. vii. yeres from her virginite.

³⁹ The wyfe is bounde to the lawe as longe as her husband liveth If her husbande slepe she is at liberte to mary with whom she wyll only in the lorde.

³ So then yf whill the man liveth she couple her selfe with another man she shalbe counted a wedlocke breaker. But yf the man be deed she is fre fro the lawe: so that she is no wedlocke breaker though she couple her selfe with another man.

⁹ But and yf they canot abstayne let them mary. For it is better to mary then to burne.

²⁷ Pure devocion and vndefiled before God the father is this: to vysit the frendlesse and widdowes in their adversite and to kepe him silfe vnspotted of the worlde.

¹¹ And it fortuned after that that he went into a cite called Naim and many of his disciples went wt him and moche people. ¹² When he came nye to the gate of the cite: beholde ther was a deed man caried out which was ye only sonne of his mother and she was a widowe and moche people of the cite was with her. ¹³ And when ye lorde sawe her he had compassion on her and sayde vnto her: wepe not. ¹⁴ And he went and touched the coffyn and they yt bare him stode still. And he sayde: Yonge man I saye vnto the aryse. ¹⁵ And ye deed sate vp and beganne to speake. And he delyvered him to his mother.

⁴⁷ which devoure widdowes houses and that vnder a coloure of longe prayinge: the same shall receave greater damnacion.

⁸ Yf ther be eny that provideth not for his awne and namly for them of his housholde the same denyeth the fayth and is worsse then an infydell.

¹⁶ And yf eny man or woman that beleveth have widdowes let the minister vnto them and let not the congregacion be charged: that yt maye have sufficient for them that are widdowes in dede.

³ Honoure widdowes which are true wyddowes. ⁴ Yf eny wyddowe have chyldren or neves let them learne fyrst to rule their awne houses godly and to recompence their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God. ⁵ She that is a very wyddowe and frendlesse putteth her trust in god and continueth in supplicacion and prayer nyght and daye. ⁶ But she that liveth in pleasure is deed even yet alive.

²² Ye shall trouble no wedowe nor fatherlesse childe: ²³ Yf ye shall trouble the: they shall crye vnto me, ad I wyll surely heare their crye ²⁴ and then will my wrath waxe hoote and I will kyll you with swerde, and youre wyues shalbe wedowes and youre childern fatherlesse.