widowers

The 13 most-voted verses about widowers, from 9 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

Exodus 22:22 (BSB)

¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:22 (KJV)

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:22 (WEB)

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

Psalm 68:5 (BSB)

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 68:5 (KJV)

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

Psalm 68:5 (WEB)

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

Psalm 146:9 (BSB)

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Psalm 146:9 (KJV)

The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

Psalm 146:9 (WEB)

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

John 16:13 (BSB)

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.

John 16:13 (KJV)

However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

John 16:13 (WEB)

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 7:9 (BSB)

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

1 Corinthians 7:9 (KJV)

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 7:9 (WEB)

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:39 (BSB)

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.

1 Corinthians 7:39 (KJV)

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:39 (WEB)

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.

James 1:27 (BSB)

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.

James 1:27 (KJV)

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.

James 1:27 (WEB)

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:19 (BSB)

Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:19 (KJV)

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 27:19 (WEB)

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

Psalm 94:6 (BSB)

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Psalm 94:6 (KJV)

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Psalm 94:6 (WEB)

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:32 (BSB)

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.

Matthew 5:32 (KJV)

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Matthew 5:32 (WEB)

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

Romans 7:3 (BSB)

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.

Romans 7:3 (KJV)

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Romans 7:3 (WEB)

Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.

1 Corinthians 7:8 (BSB)

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

1 Corinthians 7:8 (KJV)

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

1 Corinthians 7:8 (WEB)

A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, faithful to her husband,

1 Timothy 5:9 (BSB)

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

1 Timothy 5:9 (KJV)

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

1 Timothy 5:9 (WEB)

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