Bible Verses About Widow

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

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

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.