14 Bible Verses About The Widow
14 Bible verses about The Widow to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
From his holy dwelling God acts as father to orphans and defender of widows.
To God the Father, religion that is pure and untainted looks like this: going to the help of orphans and widows in their trouble, and keeping yourself unstained by the world.
He sees that orphans and widows get justice, and he loves the outsider living among you and gives them food and clothing.
Learn to do good. Go after justice. Set the oppressor straight. Give the fatherless child a fair hearing; stand up for the widow in court.
You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
The LORD protects the foreigners living in the land; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but he overturns the way of the wicked.
When you are harvesting your field and leave a sheaf behind by mistake, do not go back for it. Let it go to the outsider, the fatherless child and the widow. That way the LORD your God will bless all the work of your hands.
Give honor and support to widows who are really in need.
Leave your orphans behind; I will keep them alive. Let your widows trust in me.
Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the outsider or the poor. And do not plot evil against one another in your hearts.
The LORD tears the house of the proud to the ground, but he keeps the widow’s boundary stones in place.
When the Lord saw her, pity for her moved him deeply, and he said to her, “Stop weeping.”
Then the Levite, who has no portion or inheritance among you, and the outsider, the fatherless and the widow who live in your towns may come and eat until they are full, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work you do.
Then a poor widow came and dropped in two little copper coins, worth a few minutes’ wages. He called his disciples over and said to them, “Truly I tell you, this widow, poor as she is, has given more than all the others who are giving to the offering boxes.