Honor ¹  widows who are truly in need. ² 

If a believing woman ¹  has widows in her family, ²  let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need. ³ 

And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, ¹  worth less than a penny.

He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. ¹ 

No widow should be put on the list ¹  unless ²  she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband, ³ 

But do not accept younger widows on the list, ¹  because their passions may lead them away from Christ ²  and they will desire to marry,

They ¹  devour widows’ property, ²  and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment.”

Yet ¹  Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. ² 

They ¹  devour ²  widows’ property, ³  and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment.”

He ¹  said, “I tell you the truth, ²  this poor widow has put in more than all of them. ³ 

To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. ¹  She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. ² 

There was also a widow ¹  in that city ²  who kept coming ³  to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out ¹  by her unending pleas.’” ² 

He gave ¹  her his hand and helped her get up. Then he called ²  the saints and widows and presented her alive.

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, ¹  has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

He called his disciples and said to them, “I tell you the truth, ¹  this poor widow has put more into the offering box ²  than all the others. ³ 

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, ¹  when the sky ²  was shut up three and a half years, and ³  there was a great famine over all the land.

As he approached the town gate, a man ¹  who had died was being carried out, ²  the only son of his mother (who ³  was a widow ⁴ ), and a large crowd from the town ⁵  was with her.

Now in those ¹  days, when the disciples were growing in number, ²  a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews ³  against the native Hebraic Jews, ⁴  because their widows ⁵  were being overlooked ⁶  in the daily distribution of food. ⁷