What does the Bible say about widowers?

19 verses about widowers, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

11 booksMost in 1 Corinthians

Bible verses about widowers

Exodus 22:22 — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 4 votes
Psalms 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 4 votes
Psalms 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 3 votes
John 16:13 — 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. 3 votes
1 Corinthians 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 3 votes
1 Corinthians 7:39 — 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. 3 votes
1 Timothy 5:1 — Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 3 votes
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. 3 votes
Deuteronomy 27:19 — Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. 2 votes
Psalms 94:6 — They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. 2 votes
Matthew 5:32 — 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. 2 votes
Mark 10:1 — And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judæa by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. 2 votes
Luke 7:11 — 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. 2 votes
Luke 21:1 — And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. 2 votes
Romans 7:1 — 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? 2 votes
Romans 7:3 — 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. 2 votes
1 Corinthians 7:1 — Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 votes
1 Corinthians 7:8 — I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 2 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, 2 votes

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1 Corinthians (4), Psalms (3), Luke (2), Romans (2), 1 Timothy (2), Exodus (1), Deuteronomy (1), Matthew (1), Mark (1), John (1), James (1)

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