100 Bible Verses about People Who Are Widowed

James 1:27 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Psalm 68:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Exodus 22:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

Psalm 146:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Malachi 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Proverbs 15:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow's boundaries.

Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 14:28-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

Mark 12:41-44 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Jeremiah 49:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.”

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 7:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,

Isaiah 10:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Deuteronomy 24:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,

Deuteronomy 10:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

1 John 3:17-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Luke 7:11-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. ...

Ezekiel 22:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

Lamentations 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Jeremiah 22:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Psalm 94:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

Psalm 82:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Job 31:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Job 29:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Exodus 22:22-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 5:3-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach. ...

Luke 21:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

Mark 12:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Matthew 5:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

Isaiah 41:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Isaiah 1:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

Proverbs 23:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Psalm 10:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Job 31:16-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow),

Job 22:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

Deuteronomy 24:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 14:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

1 Timothy 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

1 Timothy 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 5:3-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach. ...

1 Timothy 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Honor widows who are truly widows.

1 Timothy 5:3-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ...

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— ...

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Ephesians 6:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Galatians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Romans 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Acts 6:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. ...

John 14:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 20:46-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Luke 18:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” ...

Luke 7:11-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.

Luke 2:36-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Matthew 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Hosea 14:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”

Isaiah 66:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 58:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Isaiah 58:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.

Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

Isaiah 10:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 10:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 9:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 22:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 140:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.