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

Let the elders who rule 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 the LORD your God is giving you.

'then he need not honor his father or mother.' Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have made demands 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 hindered.

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 administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

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

"You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who [is] within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who [are] among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.

"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 stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who [are] within your gates.

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

The blessing of a perishing [man] came upon me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

"If I have kept the poor from [their] desire, Or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, [Is] God in His holy habitation.

They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless.

The LORD watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Leave your fatherless children, 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 greater 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 complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.

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 trouble, [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 really 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 this woman [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!"