Widows: Often Devoted Themselves Entirely to God's Service
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Luke 2:37
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
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1 Timothy 5:10
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
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Marriage of the Blessed virgin to Joseph
... While the two widows were recalling the wedding of Mary ... in Jerusalem in a house which
was often hired out ... work Imre Binah, c. 6o, that virgins devoted to God's ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/vii marriage of the blessed.htm

Prayer Essential to God
... in the early Church, when the complaint that the widows of certain ... They had to be
devoted to prayer in order to ... prayer and shut the closet door, often with the ...
/.../bounds/the weapon of prayer/i prayer essential to god.htm

Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... power, [1147]ib.; Christians exhorted to sign themselves with it ... works with man,
[1407]220; of man often more persuasive ... and is evidence of a mind devoted to God ...
/.../homilies on philippians colossians and.htm

An Account of the General Conference of 1796
... the relief of the wives and children, widows and orphans ... it was procured, namely,
to be devoted in perpetuity ... This useful class of men were often called upon to ...
/.../chapter 2 an account of.htm

From the Close of the General Conference of 1824 to the ...
... became sober and industrious, and devoted both himself ... had been but feeble, and often
the prospects ... building churches, the people felt themselves compelled, as ...
/.../chapter 8 from the close.htm

1869-1870. Emigration of Families --A visitor's Impressions --The ...
... The great lifework of Miss Macpherson and her devoted family may ... than the usual time
by faithful widows, who sewed ... No wonder that they often turn out unfit for ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/lowe/gods answers/chapter ii 1869-1870 emigration of.htm

1875-1877. Mrs. Way's Sewing --Class for Jewesses --Bible Flower ...
... week one of the spacious floors is devoted to receiving ... meetings at the Home of Industry
are often a time ... leader of our class for mothers and widows says that ...
//christianbookshelf.org/lowe/gods answers/chapter vi 1875-1877 mrs ways.htm

Methodist Book Concern
... by the fluctuations of the times, so often occasioned by ... Book Concern, and is therefore
still devoted to scientific ... perhaps as many wives and widows, besides a ...
/.../chapter 16 methodist book concern.htm

From the Beginning of 1785 to the End of 1786
... twelve persons in each, but unhappily have often increased to ... allowance on the circuits,
and for the widows and worn ... dead to the world, and much devoted to God.2 ...
/.../chapter 1 from the beginning.htm

The Blessedness of Giving
... is to visit the fatherless and widows in their ... The previous fourteen years had been
assiduously devoted to the ... decent apparel to wear, I was often deprived of ...
/.../various/the wonders of prayer/the blessedness of giving.htm

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Widows

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Widows were Clothed in Mourning After the Decease of Husbands

Widows were Frequently Oppressed and Persecuted

Widows were Released from all Obligation to Former Husbands

Widows were Under the Special Protection of God

Widows: A Desolate Condition

Widows: A Type of Zion in Affliction

Widows: Allowed to Marry Again

Widows: Blessings on Those Who Relieve

Widows: Character of True

Widows: Curse for Perverting Judgment of

Widows: Exhorted to Trust in God

Widows: God: Establishes the Border of

Widows: God: Judges For

Widows: God: Relieves

Widows: God: Surely Hears the Cry of

Widows: God: Will Witness Against Oppressors of

Widows: Great Liberality In

Widows: Increase of, Threatened As a Punishment

Widows: Intermarrying With, of Kings Considered Treason

Widows: Laws Respecting: Bound to Perform Their Vows

Widows: Laws Respecting: Not to be Oppressed

Widows: Laws Respecting: Not to Intermarry With Priests

Widows: Laws Respecting: Raiment of, not to be Taken in Pledge by Creditors

Widows: Laws Respecting: To be Allowed to Glean in Fields and Vineyards

Widows: Laws Respecting: To Have a Share of the Triennial Tithe

Widows: Laws Respecting: To Share in Public Rejoicings

Widows: Laws Respecting: when Daughters of Priests and Childless to Partake of The

Widows: Laws Respecting: when Left Childless, to be Married by Their Husband's

Widows: Not to be Deplored By, Considered a Great Calamity

Widows: Often Devoted Themselves Entirely to God's Service

Widows: Reproach Connected With

Widows: Saints: Cause Joy To

Widows: Saints: Disappoint Not

Widows: Saints: Relieve

Widows: should be Allowed to Share in Our Blessings

Widows: should be Honored, If Widows Indeed

Widows: should be Pleaded For

Widows: should be Relieved by the Church

Widows: should be Relieved by Their Friends

Widows: should be Visited in Affliction

Widows: should not Be: Afflicted

Widows: should not Be: Deprived of Raiment in Pledge

Widows: should not Be: Oppressed

Widows: should not Be: Treated With Violence

Widows: Specially Taken Care of by the Church

Widows: The Wicked: do No Good To

Widows: The Wicked: Make a Prey of

Widows: The Wicked: Reject the Cause of

Widows: The Wicked: Send, Away Empty

Widows: The Wicked: Slay

Widows: The Wicked: Take Pledges From

Widows: The Wicked: Vex

Widows: Though Poor, May be Liberal

Widows: when Young, Exposed to May Temptations

Widows: Woe to Those Who Oppress

Widows: Zion in Captivity

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