Widow
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Widow’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 25–48 of 128 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
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Isaiah 1:17 OT
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
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Isaiah 1:23 OT
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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Isaiah 10:1 OT
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
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Isaiah 10:2 OT
to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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Jeremiah 7:6 OT
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;
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Jeremiah 7:7 OT
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
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Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
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Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
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Ezekiel 22:7 OT
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
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Malachi 3:5 OT
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and…
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“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
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Mark 12:40 NT
those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
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Luke 20:47 NT
who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”
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But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
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But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
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Honor widows who are widows indeed. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God. Now she who is a widow…
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Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has…
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If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
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Ruth 1:3 OT
Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.
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Ruth 1:1-22 OT
In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The…
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Ruth 2:1-23 OT
Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I…
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Ruth 3:1-18 OT
Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.…