Bible Verses About Widows
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for widows, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,222 votes, led by Exodus 22:22-24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Widows
Exodus 22:22-24228 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Psalms 68:5153 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
1 Timothy 5:3-6100 votes
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5:890 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.
Psalms 146:986 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Isaiah 1:1783 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
1 Timothy 5:1680 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.
James 1:2773 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 15:2572 votes
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Luke 20:4772 votes
Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Zechariah 7:1059 votes
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Luke 7:11-1557 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.
Mark 12:41-4449 votes
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
Luke 2:3748 votes
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Romans 7:345 votes
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
1 Corinthians 7:3941 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.
Job 22:939 votes
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Malachi 3:539 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.
Isaiah 10:238 votes
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
1 Timothy 5:338 votes
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Job 29:1336 votes
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Jeremiah 49:1135 votes
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Jeremiah 7:5-732 votes
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
1 Corinthians 7:832 votes
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Deuteronomy 14:28-2931 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:
What does the Bible say about widows?
Readers most often cite Exodus 22:22-24 on the subject of widows. Across 2,222 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 68:5, 1 Timothy 5:3-6, 1 Timothy 5:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.