Bible Verses About Widow

you sent widows away empty-handed and left the arms of orphans crushed.

they drive away the orphan's donkey; as collateral, they seize the widow's ox.

They devour childless women and give no help to widows.

Those who had been about to die would bless me, and I made widows sing in their hearts for joy.

"If I held back anything needed by the poor or made a widow's eye grow dim [with tears],

then let my arm fall from its socket, and let my forearm be broken at the elbow!

God in his holy dwelling, is a father to orphans and defender of widows.

They kill widows and strangers and murder the fatherless.

ADONAI watches over strangers, he sustains the fatherless and widows; but the way of the wicked he twists.

ADONAI will pull down the houses of the proud, but preserves intact the widow's boundaries.

learn to do good! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, defend orphans, plead for the widow.

Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They give no justice to orphans, the widow's complaint doesn't catch their attention.

Woe to those who enact unjust decrees and draft oppressive legislation

to deprive the impoverished of justice and rob my people's poor of their rights, looting widows and preying on orphans!

if you stop oppressing foreigners, orphans and widows; if you stop shedding innocent blood in this place; and if you stop following other gods, to your own harm;

then I will let you stay in this place, in the land I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.

This is what ADONAI says: "Do what is right and just; rescue the wronged from their oppressors; do nothing wrong or violent to the stranger, orphan or widow; don't shed innocent blood in this place.

Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive; let your widows trust in me."

In you, they make light of fathers and mothers, they oppress foreigners, they wrong orphans and widows.

Don't oppress widows, orphans, foreigners or poor people. Don't plot evil against each other.'

"Then I will approach you for judgment; and I will be quick to witness against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers; against those who take advantage of wage-earners, widows and orphans; against those who rob the foreigner of his rights and don't fear me," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! For you swallow up widow's houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Because of this your punishment will be all the worse

who like to swallow up widows' houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Their punishment will be all the worse!"

the kind that swallow up widows’ houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Their punishment will be all the worse!”

Therefore, while the husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress if she marries another man; but if the husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah; so that if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.