Bible Verses about “helping widows”

“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.”

“Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.”

“Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."”

“"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.”

“In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.”

“He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'”

“Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'”

“It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.”

“"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.”

“A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,”

“and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.”

“"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;”

“for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.'”

“"But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'”

“"He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'”

“"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"”

“For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.”

“You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.”

“If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;”

“but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.”

“Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.”

“He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.”

“and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;”

“Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.”

“But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."”

“whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.”

“Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.”

“The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.”

“These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;”

“If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.”

“Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,”

“"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.”

“The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.”

“They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.”