Bible Verses About Self-Denial: Widow of Zarephath

She said, “As the LORD your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the earth.’”

She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.