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The 17 most-voted verses about widows, from 12 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

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)

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 5:8 (BSB)

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.

1 Timothy 5:8 (KJV)

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.

1 Timothy 5:8 (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)

The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.

Proverbs 15:25 (BSB)

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

Proverbs 15:25 (KJV)

The LORD will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Proverbs 15:25 (WEB)

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

Isaiah 1:17 (BSB)

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:17 (KJV)

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Isaiah 1:17 (WEB)

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

Luke 20:47 (BSB)

Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Luke 20:47 (KJV)

who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

Luke 20:47 (WEB)

If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.

1 Timothy 5:16 (BSB)

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.

1 Timothy 5:16 (KJV)

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.

1 Timothy 5:16 (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)

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 22:9 (BSB)

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 22:9 (KJV)

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 22:9 (WEB)

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.

Isaiah 10:2 (BSB)

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!

Isaiah 10:2 (KJV)

to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 10:2 (WEB)

Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

Jeremiah 49:11 (BSB)

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Jeremiah 49:11 (KJV)

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

Jeremiah 49:11 (WEB)

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

Zechariah 7:10 (BSB)

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Zechariah 7:10 (KJV)

Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Zechariah 7:10 (WEB)

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 3:5 (BSB)

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:5 (KJV)

I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.

Malachi 3:5 (WEB)

and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

Luke 2:37 (BSB)

And she [was] a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served [God] with fastings and prayers night and day.

Luke 2:37 (KJV)

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Luke 2:37 (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)

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)

Honor the widows who are truly widows.

1 Timothy 5:3 (BSB)

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

1 Timothy 5:3 (KJV)

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

1 Timothy 5:3 (WEB)

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