The best Bible verses for widows include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for widows, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, the Levites in your towns, and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows living among you."Deuteronomy 16:11
"And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, the Levites in your towns, and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows living among you."Deuteronomy 16:11
"Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks vileness. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised."Isaiah 9:17
"So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle."Jeremiah 18:21
"He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called the believers and the widows and presented her to them alive."Acts 9:41
"My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless."Exodus 22:24
"In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food."Acts 6:1
"Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them."Acts 9:39
"“So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty."Malachi 3:5
"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."1 Timothy 5:5
"He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing."Deuteronomy 10:18
"Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge."Deuteronomy 24:17
"When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow."Deuteronomy 24:20
Scripture returns to widows often enough that no single verse covers it. The 15 passages below come from across the Old and New Testaments, and they do not all say the same thing — read together they give a fuller picture than any one of them does alone.
Each links to a study page with the full passage, its context, and the text in six translations, so a verse that catches your attention can be followed properly rather than left as a fragment.
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The most-cited Bible verses for widows are Deuteronomy 16:11, Isaiah 9:17, Jeremiah 18:21. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to widows across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for widows, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.