Bible Verses About Helping Widows
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for helping widows, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 340 votes, led by James 1:27. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Helping Widows
James 1:2763 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.
Proverbs 19:1743 votes
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
1 Timothy 5:842 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
1 Timothy 5:1637 votes
If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
Isaiah 58:1023 votes
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
Matthew 5:4223 votes
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Deuteronomy 15:7-1117 votes
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Proverbs 22:914 votes
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
1 Timothy 5:913 votes
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
Leviticus 19:1512 votes
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Proverbs 29:712 votes
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Luke 16:19-3111 votes
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Proverbs 31:910 votes
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Jeremiah 5:2810 votes
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Acts 6:1-610 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 helping widows?
Readers most often cite James 1:27 on the subject of helping widows. Across 340 votes, 15 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 19:17, 1 Timothy 5:8, 1 Timothy 5:16. This page lists all 15 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.