Bible Dictionary: Widows: Exhorted to Trust in God

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency, and Government of ...
... Nor are all forced to the same degree In things divine, tho' all exhorted be To ... They
are to be chosen from such as are 'widows indeed, who trust in God ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse of the building.htm

The Institution of Deacons, and the History of Stephen.
... of men appointed to relieve the fatherless, widows, and orphans. ... As the trust, implied
in this office, was important ... as Christians in general are exhorted to be ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture viii the institution of.htm

Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... be borne by Christians, [1146]242; its power, [1147]ib.; Christians exhorted to
sign ... 1158]204 (see [1159]Apostles and [1160]Joseph) ; thought a god, [1161]327 ...
/.../homilies on philippians colossians and.htm

Holiness Demanded
... but, all the while, he is devouring widows' houses, he ... God ordained them, seeing
thou puttest thy trust in them ... Or, if they are exhorted to holiness, why, they ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 50 1904/holiness demanded.htm

Letter cxxx. (AD 412. )
... that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain ... true life on which the rich
are exhorted to lay ... the latter is one with which widows remaining unmarried ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter cxxx a d 412.htm

The Permanent Significance of the Old Testament
... its pages, and that they constantly exhorted their followers ... life's riddle, but is
content to trust God, of whose ... to visit the fatherless and widows in their ...
/.../chapter vi the permanent significance.htm

The Epistle of St. James
... and had no pity on orphans and widows, but neglected ... culture, as they expounded the
scriptures or exhorted the faithful ... God will judge us (ii.12) on the last ...
/.../moffat/the general epistles james peter and judas/the epistle of st james.htm

Life at Herrnhut.
... Again and again he exhorted the Brethren to regard ... The married choir, the widowers,
the widows, the Single ... pledge at once of united service and united trust. ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter iv life at herrnhut.htm

Doctrinal and Moral Treatises. Index of Subjects.
... 521, [453]522; did what he exhorted others to do ... 265, [558]529; a creature of God,
[559]374 ... Chalcedon, Council of, excommunicates (Church) widows who marry, [660 ...
/.../on care to be had for the dead /doctrinal and moral treatises index.htm

1 Cor. vii. 1, 2
... Since if the widows [91] are condemned for having to ... time is shortened;" that is,
"we are exhorted to depart ... compulsion, seems as if he did not trust his own ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xix 1 cor vii.htm

Subtopics

Widows

Widows Remarrying

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