older women as mothers, younger ones as sisters, with all purity.

Let the elders who lead well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the Word and doctrine.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.

and he does not honor his father or mother. Thus you have voided the commandment of God by your tradition.

Nor did we seek honor from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been authoritative as apostles of Christ.

Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be cut off.

Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man,

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, to give him food and clothing.

And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, shall come and eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

You shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish His name.

And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.

Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the sojourner, the fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen!

The blessing of the dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

If I have withheld from the poor their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

In His holy dwelling God is a father to the fatherless, and a judge for the widows.

They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.

Jehovah watches over the sojourners; He relieves the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Leave your orphans; I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in Me.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive more abundant condemnation.

And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily service.

Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the tunics and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.

Now she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man,

But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit.