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Bible Verses About widowers

18 key scriptures

What does the Bible say about widowers? Browse 18 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Psalms 68:5
King James (KJV)A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

18 Key Scriptures

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
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.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
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.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, taken: or, chosen
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
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.

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