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What does the Bible say about helping widows?

15 verses about helping widows, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about helping widows

James 1:27 — 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. 14 votes
Proverbs 19:17 — He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. 9 votes
1 Timothy 5:8 — 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. 9 votes
1 Timothy 5:16 — 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. 8 votes
Isaiah 58:10 — 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: 5 votes
Matthew 5:42 — Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. 5 votes
Deuteronomy 15:7 — 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: 4 votes
Proverbs 22:9 — He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. 3 votes
Proverbs 29:7 — The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. 3 votes
1 Timothy 5:9 — Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, 3 votes
Leviticus 19:15 — 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. 2 votes
Proverbs 31:9 — Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. 2 votes
Jeremiah 5:28 — 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. 2 votes
Luke 16:19 — There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 2 votes
Acts 6:1 — 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. 2 votes

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Proverbs (4), 1 Timothy (3), Leviticus (1), Deuteronomy (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1), Matthew (1), Luke (1), Acts (1), James (1)

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