What the Bible has to Say About Widows

Jame 1:27 (KJS) Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Job 29:13 (KJS) The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Deut 10:18 (KJS) He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Prov 15:25 (KJS) The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

Psal 146:9 (KJS) The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Jere 49:11 (KJS) Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Isai 54:5 (KJS) For thy Maker [is] thine husband; the LORD of hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

1Cor 7:39 (KJS) The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

John 14:18 (KJS) I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Psal 147:3 (KJS) He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Psal 68:5 (KJS) A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.

Deut 27:19 (KJS) Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

John 16:22 (KJS) And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.