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.


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1 Corinthians 7 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Ezekiel 44 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Deuteronomy 25 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Hosea 9 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
1 Timothy 5 5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy 5 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Numbers 30 9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
Matthew 23 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
1 Timothy 5 11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
Isaiah 47 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Exodus 22 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
1 Timothy 5 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.
1 Peter 3 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
2 Samuel 14 5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
Jeremiah 49 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
1 Corinthians 7 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
1 Corinthians 7 13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
Ezekiel 44 25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
1 Corinthians 7 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Romans 7 2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Mark 12 40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Job 22 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Jeremiah 9 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
1 Corinthians 11 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
1 Timothy 5 9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.
Luke 20 47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
1 Samuel 2 33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
Leviticus 21 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
Isaiah 47 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Numbers 5 19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
Romans 7 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Luke 21 3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
Ephesians 5 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Numbers 5 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Titus 2 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Genesis 20 7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
1 Corinthians 14 34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
Mark 12 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
Isaiah 50 1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Proverbs 18 22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
1 Corinthians 7 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Ezra 10 14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
1 Corinthians 7 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Ephesians 5 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Job 29 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Jeremiah 16 7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
1 Timothy 3 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Numbers 16 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
Luke 20 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
Ephesians 5 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.