50 Bible Verses About Widows

“even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.”

““You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.”

“A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.”

“He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.”

“The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.”

“For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.”

“You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.”

“When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.”

“When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.”

“When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.”

“‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”

“You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.”

“There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,”

“He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.”

“In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.”

“But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.”

“A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”

“God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.”

“He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.”

““Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”

“Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.”

“Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”

“Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.”

“Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.”

“He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.”

“Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.”

“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.””

“Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.”

“Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.”

“to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!”

“Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?”

“Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.”

“For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare?”

“Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.””

““For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.””

“We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.”

“They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspringor, seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.”

“Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’”

“I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.”

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13”

“those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.””

“But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.”

“who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.””

“You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your offspringor, seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.’Genesis 22:18; 26:4”

“I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8”

“Honor widows who are widows indeed.”

“I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.”

“If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.”