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Exodus 20:12
“ Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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Deuteronomy 16:11
And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name— you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.
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Deuteronomy 10:18
He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
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Acts 6:1
In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
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Deuteronomy 27:19
“ Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” Then all the people shall say,“ Amen!”
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Deuteronomy 14:29
so that the Levites( who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
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Deuteronomy 16:14
Be joyful at your festival— you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.
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Acts 9:39
Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
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1 Timothy 5 2
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
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1 Timothy 5 4-1 Timothy 5 5
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.
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1 Timothy 5 9-1 Timothy 5 11
No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord’s people, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry.
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Psalms 68:5
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
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Matthew 23:13
“ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
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Jeremiah 49:11
‘ Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.’”
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1 Timothy 5 16-1 Timothy 5 17
If any woman who is a believer has widows in her care, she should continue to help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need.The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
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Luke 2:37
and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
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Matthew 15:6
they are not to‘ honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
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Psalms 146:9
The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
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1 Peter 2 17
Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor.
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1 Peter 3 7
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
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Psalms 94:6
They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
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Job 29:13
The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.
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Job 31:16
“ If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
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1 Thessalonians 2 6
We were not looking for praise from people, not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority.
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Luke 7:12
As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out— the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
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James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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John 1:47
When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him,“ Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”