the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with all purity.

The elders who do good work as leaders should be considered worthy of receiving double pay, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

"Respect your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that I am giving you.

they do not need to honor their father. In this way you disregard God's command, in order to follow your own teaching.

We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others,

Respect everyone, love other believers, honor God, and respect the Emperor.

In the same way you husbands must live with your wives with the proper understanding that they are more delicate than you. Treat them with respect, because they also will receive, together with you, God's gift of life. Do this so that nothing will interfere with your prayers.

Do not add any widow to the list of widows unless she is over sixty years of age. In addition, she must have been married only once

He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly; he loves the foreigners who live with our people, and gives them food and clothes.

This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

Be joyful in the LORD's presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. Do this at the one place of worship.

Enjoy it with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns.

" 'God's curse on anyone who deprives foreigners, orphans, and widows of their rights.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'

People who were in deepest misery praised me, and I helped widows find security.

I have never refused to help the poor; never have I let widows live in despair

God, who lives in his sacred Temple, cares for orphans and protects widows.

They kill widows and orphans, and murder the strangers who live in our land.

He protects the strangers who live in our land; he helps widows and orphans, but takes the wicked to their ruin.

Leave your orphans with me, and I will take care of them. Your widows can depend on me.

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Just as he arrived at the gate of the town, a funeral procession was coming out. The dead man was the only son of a woman who was a widow, and a large crowd from the town was with her.

Some time later, as the number of disciples kept growing, there was a quarrel between the Greek-speaking Jews and the native Jews. The Greek-speaking Jews claimed that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of funds.

So Peter got ready and went with them. When he arrived, he was taken to the room upstairs, where all the widows crowded around him, crying and showing him all the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was alive.

What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should learn first to carry out their religious duties toward their own family and in this way repay their parents and grandparents, because that is what pleases God.

A widow who is all alone, with no one to take care of her, has placed her hope in God and continues to pray and ask him for his help night and day.

Do not add any widow to the list of widows unless she is over sixty years of age. In addition, she must have been married only once

But do not include younger widows in the list; because when their desires make them want to marry, they turn away from Christ,

(SEE 2:36)

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, he said about him, "Here is a real Israelite; there is nothing false in him!"