If you click on it with your mouse button, another. The Lord is reminding us this month that He has not forgotten anyoneespecially orphans and widows. Psalm 146:9 The Lord watches over the sojourners he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. Each time you start up your computer, this program writes the verse from the Bible on the desktop wallpaper. Psalm 82:3 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to.ġ4 So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.ġ5 Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.ġ6 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. Group 2 Bible Verses About Orphans And Widows. 17 Learn to do well seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry.ġ2 Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge.ġ3 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. 27 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. Now here I was, standing in front of an orphan, and a widow, seeing their grief spread raw before my very eyes. 3 Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.Ĥ 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.ĥ 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.Ħ But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.ħ Give the people these instructions, so that no one may be open to blame.Ĩ Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.ĩ No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,ġ0 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.ġ1 As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. 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.