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Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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Deuteronomy 16:11
Rejoice before Yahweh your God in the place where He chooses to have His name dwell— you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you.
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Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
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Acts 6:1
In those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.
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Deuteronomy 27:19
‘ The one who denies justice to a foreigner, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’ And all the people will say,‘ Amen!’
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Deuteronomy 14:29
Then the Levite, who has no portion or inheritance among you, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come, eat, and be satisfied. And the Lord your God will bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.
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Deuteronomy 16:14
Rejoice during your festival— you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates.
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Acts 9:39
So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the room upstairs. And all the widows approached him, weeping and showing him the robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was with them.
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1 Timothy 5 2
older women as mothers, and with all propriety, the younger women as sisters.
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1 Timothy 5 4-1 Timothy 5 5
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.The real widow, left all alone, has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;
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1 Timothy 5 9-1 Timothy 5 11
No widow should be placed on the official support list unless she is at least 60 years old, has been the wife of one husband,and is well known for good works— that is, if she has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the saints’ feet, helped the afflicted, and devoted herself to every good work.But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when they are drawn away from Christ by desire, they want to marry
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Psalms 68:5
God in His holy dwelling is a father of the fatherless and a champion of widows.
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Matthew 23:13
“ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.
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Jeremiah 49:11
Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them; let your widows trust in Me.
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1 Timothy 5 16-1 Timothy 5 17
If any believing woman has widows in her family, she should help them, and the church should not be burdened, so that it can help those who are genuinely widows.The elders who are good leaders should be considered worthy of an ample honorarium, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
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Luke 2:37
and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.
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Matthew 15:6
he does not have to honor his father.’ In this way, you have revoked God’s word because of your tradition.
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Psalms 146:9
The Lord protects foreigners and helps the fatherless and the widow, but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.
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1 Peter 2 17
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the Emperor.
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1 Peter 3 7
Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
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Psalms 94:6
They kill the widow and the foreigner and murder the fatherless.
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Job 29:13
The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice.
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Job 31:16
If I have refused the wishes of the poor or let the widow’s eyes go blind,
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1 Thessalonians 2 6
and we didn’t seek glory from people, either from you or from others.
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Luke 7:12
Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was also with her.
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James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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John 1:47
Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him,“ Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”