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Psalm 68:5 ESV / 379 helpful votes Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.Isaiah 54:4-5 ESV / 319 helpful votes “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. 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.James 1:27 ESV / 292 helpful votes 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.1 Timothy 5:3 ESV / 275 helpful votes Honor widows who are truly widows.1 Timothy 5:5 ESV / 218 helpful votes She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 195 helpful votes “‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’Psalm 146:9 ESV / 183 helpful votes The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.Psalm 147:3 ESV / 177 helpful votes He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.Exodus 22:22 ESV / 152 helpful votes You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.1 Timothy 5:9 ESV / 138 helpful votes Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,Mark 12:40 ESV / 126 helpful votes Who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”Malachi 3:5 ESV / 123 helpful votes “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.Jeremiah 49:11 ESV / 121 helpful votes Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.”1 Timothy 5:3-16 ESV / 117 helpful votes 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. …Deuteronomy 14:28-29 ESV / 83 helpful votes “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.Proverbs 15:25 ESV / 80 helpful votes The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries.
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