Bible Verses About God Caring for Widows
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for god caring for widows, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,813 votes, led by Psalms 68:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about God Caring for Widows
Psalms 68:5515 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Isaiah 54:4-5435 votes
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
James 1:27418 votes
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.
1 Timothy 5:3370 votes
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5:5313 votes
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
Psalms 146:9283 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Deuteronomy 27:19269 votes
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Exodus 22:22250 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Psalms 147:3236 votes
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
1 Timothy 5:9212 votes
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
Jeremiah 49:11195 votes
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Malachi 3:5182 votes
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Mark 12:40176 votes
Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
1 Timothy 5:3-16175 votes
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Deuteronomy 14:28-29149 votes
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
Exodus 22:22-24140 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Luke 18:1-8135 votes
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Acts 6:1-15126 votes
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Deuteronomy 15:11117 votes
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Luke 7:11-17110 votes
And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
Proverbs 15:25109 votes
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17104 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Matthew 25:40104 votes
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Ruth 4:14100 votes
And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.
Acts 6:186 votes
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
What does the Bible say about god caring for widows?
Readers most often cite Psalms 68:5 on the subject of god caring for widows. Across 7,813 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 54:4-5, James 1:27, 1 Timothy 5:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.