Widow

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Timothy 5:3 NT

  Honor widows who are widows indeed.

• 1 Timothy 5:4 NT

  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.

• 1 Timothy 5:16 NT

  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.

• Acts 6:1 NT

  Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

• 1 Timothy 5:9 NT

  Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

• James 1:27 NT

  Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

• Deuteronomy 14:29 OT

  The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless…

• Deuteronomy 16:11 OT

  You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh…

• Deuteronomy 16:14 OT

  You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 24:19-21 OT

  When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work…

• Mark 12:42 NT

  A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.

• Mark 12:43 NT

  He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

• 1 Timothy 5:11-14 NT

  But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry, having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge. Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not…

• Acts 9:39 NT

  Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

• Job 29:13 OT

  the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

• Job 31:16 OT

  “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

• Job 24:21 OT

  He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

• Job 22:9 OT

  You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

• Job 24:3 OT

  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• Matthew 23:14 NT

  “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.

• Psalms 94:6 OT

  They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.