Quotes about Widow
The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
— 1 Timothy 5:5
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
— Job 31:18
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
— Genesis 38:11
she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
— Genesis 38:14
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
— Samuel Johnson
Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury.
— Mark 12:43
If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
— Job 31:16
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:19
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
— Luke 20:28
As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
— Luke 7:12
his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
— Deuteronomy 25:9
And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
— Luke 18:3