Quotes about Widows
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
- Jeremiah 49:11
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
- Lamentations 5:3
The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.
- Ezekiel 22:25
They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
- Mark 12:40
But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
- Luke 4:25
They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
- Luke 20:47
In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
- Acts 6:1
So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
- Acts 9:39
Peter took her by the hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her to them alive.
- Acts 9:41
Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.
- 1 Corinthians 7:8
Honor the widows who are truly widows.
- 1 Timothy 5:3
But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,
- 1 Timothy 5:11