Bible Question: what does the bible say about widows? |
Bible Answer: Hi rocket007 These are the scriptures I think might pertain to your question, go to the ones that seem to fit, and read more. OLD TEST. Exodus 22:22 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. Deuteronomy 10:18 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Deuteronomy 27:19 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. Psalm 68:5 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. Psalm 146:9 9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. Proverbs 15:25 25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. Isaiah 1:17 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Zechariah 7:10 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. Malachi 3:5 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. NEW TEST. 1 Timothy 5:3-5, 9, 11, 16 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. 5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. 9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man. 11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; 16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indee James 1:27 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Vintage68 |