Bible Verses About Widow

"You are not to abuse any widow or orphan.

If you do abuse them in any way, and they cry to me, I will certainly heed their cry.

My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword - your own wives will be widows and your own children fatherless.

he may not marry a widow, divorcee, profaned woman or prostitute; but he must marry a virgin from among his own people

But if the daughter of a cohen is a widow or divorcee and has no child, and she is sent back to her father's house as when she was young, she may share in her father's food; but no one not a cohen is to share in it.

"The vow of a widow, however, or of a divorcee, including everything to which she has obligated herself, will stand against her.

He secures justice for the orphan and the widow; he loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

At the end of every three years you are to take all the tenths of your produce from that year and store it in your towns.

Then the Levi, because he has no share or inheritance like yours, along with the foreigner, the orphan and the widow living in your towns, will come, eat and be satisfied - so that ADONAI your God will bless you in everything your hands produce.

You are to rejoice in the presence of ADONAI your God - you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, the L'vi'im living in your towns, and the foreigners, orphans and widows living among you - in the place where ADONAI your God will choose to have his name live.

Remember that you were a slave in Egypt; then you will keep and obey these laws.

"You are to keep the festival of Sukkot for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing-floor and winepress.

Rejoice at your festival - you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, the L'vi'im, and the foreigners, orphans and widows living among you.

"You are not to deprive the foreigner or the orphan of the justice which is his due, and you are not to take a widow's clothing as collateral for a loan.

"When harvesting the grain in your field, if you forgot a sheaf of grain there, you are not to go back and get it; it will remain there for the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, so that ADONAI your God will bless you in all the work you do.

When you beat your olive tree, you are not to go back over the branches again; the olives that are left will be for the foreigner, the orphan and the widow.

When you gather the grapes from your vineyard, you are not to return and pick grapes a second time; what is left will be for the foreigner, the orphan and the widow.

"If brothers live together, and one of them dies childless, his widow is not to marry someone unrelated to him; her husband's brother is to go to her and perform the duty of a brother-in-law by marrying her.

The first child she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be eliminated from Isra'el.

If the man does not wish to marry his brother's widow, then his brother's widow is to go up to the gate, to the leaders, and say, 'My brother-in-law refuses to raise up for his brother a name in Isra'el; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother for me.'

The leaders of his town are to summon him and speak to him. If, on appearing before them, he continues to say, 'I don't want to marry her,'

then his brother's widow is to approach him in the presence of the leaders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face and say, 'This is what is done to the man who refuses to build up his brother's family.'

From that time on, his family is to be known in Isra'el as 'the family of the man who had his sandal pulled off.'

"'A curse on anyone who interferes with justice for the foreigner, orphan or widow.'All the people are to say, 'Amen!'

Isn't it because your wickedness is great? Aren't your iniquities endless?