Honor widows who are truly in need.

If a believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need.

And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny.

He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.

No widow should be put on the list unless she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband,

But do not accept younger widows on the list, because their passions may lead them away from Christ and they will desire to marry,

They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment.”

Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment.”

He said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”

He gave her his hand and helped her get up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive.

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

He called his disciples and said to them, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the offering box than all the others.

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her.

Now in those days, when the disciples were growing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Hebraic Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.