Bible Verses About Widowers
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for widowers, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 284 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 Widowers
Psalms 68:525 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Exodus 22:2224 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
1 Corinthians 7:921 votes
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
James 1:2719 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.
Psalms 146:918 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
1 Corinthians 7:3918 votes
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.
Exodus 22:22-2417 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
John 16:1317 votes
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4016 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Timothy 5:1-2515 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Matthew 5:3214 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Mark 10:1-5213 votes
And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
Romans 7:1-313 votes
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
1 Corinthians 7:8-912 votes
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Luke 21:1-411 votes
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
1 Timothy 5:911 votes
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
Deuteronomy 27:1910 votes
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Luke 7:11-1710 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.
What does the Bible say about widowers?
Readers most often cite Psalms 68:5 on the subject of widowers. Across 284 votes, 18 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 22:22, 1 Corinthians 7:9, James 1:27. This page lists all 18 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.