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Bible Verses About Widows
Find Bible verses about widows — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about widows?
The Bible addresses widows with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
1 Timothy 5:3
“Honor widows who are widows indeed.”
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Psalms 68:5
“A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
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James 1:27
“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.”
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Job 22:9
“You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.”
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Psalms 78:64
“Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.”
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Jeremiah 49:11
“Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.”
Lamentations 5:3
“We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.”
Jeremiah 15:8
“Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenl...”
Isaiah 10:2
“to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!”
1 Timothy 5:16
“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.”
1 Timothy 5:14
“I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.”
Luke 4:25
“But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.”
Acts 6:1
“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 5:11
“But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;”
Acts 9:39
“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 wit...”
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Luke 20:47 — “who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemna...”
Mark 12:40 — “those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater co...”
Matthew 23:13 — “"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you...”
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