Bible Verses About Taking Care of Widows
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for taking care of widows, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 835 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 Taking Care of Widows
James 1:27133 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 5:3-4121 votes
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5:8117 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.
Exodus 22:22-2392 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Deuteronomy 15:7-1168 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:
Deuteronomy 24:17-2151 votes
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
1 Timothy 5:948 votes
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
1 Timothy 5:1-2547 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Psalms 82:340 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deuteronomy 14:28-2939 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:
Acts 6:123 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.
Isaiah 1:1722 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Ruth 2:5-1617 votes
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
John 19:2617 votes
When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
What does the Bible say about taking care of widows?
Readers most often cite James 1:27 on the subject of taking care of widows. Across 835 votes, 14 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:3-4, 1 Timothy 5:8, Exodus 22:22-23. This page lists all 14 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.