20 Bible Verses about

Helping Widows

Luke 18:7 BSB

Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?

Psalm 78:64 BSB

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

Psalm 68:5 BSB

A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

Luke 20:47 BSB

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

Isaiah 10:2 BSB

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

James 1:27 BSB

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Luke 4:25 BSB

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Ezra 5:2 BSB

Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak rose up and began to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, helping them.

1 Corinthians 12:28 BSB

And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.

Judges 21:22 BSB

When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”