Bible Dictionary: Widows: should not Be: Oppressed

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Jeremiah 7:6
If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
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Library

Bishop Hosius Said: Our Importunity and Great Pertinacity and ...
... suffering from violence and oppression, afflicted widows and defrauded ... the mercy
of the Church, such persons should be succoured ... of this kind let him not be a ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon vii bishop hosius said .htm

Whether it is Lawful for Religious to Live on Alms?
... have "sufficient for them that are widows indeed." And ... the good works of the faithful
should not leave God's ... these corporal works, they be not oppressed by want ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is lawful for 15.htm

"Is not this the Carpenter's Son?"
... the Messiah as a reliever of the oppressed, a liberator ... Satan was determined that
blind eyes should not that day ... say unto you, There were many widows in Israel ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 24 is not this.htm

1 Timothy v. 8
... thou departest, receives all the blessings of the widows. ... should be astounded, [1264]
lest he should prove unworthy. ... hath the Scripture said, "Let not thy left ...
/.../homily xiv 1 timothy v.htm

Face to Face with Shams
... If, for instance, oppressed by social problems and the ... who were so far from being
widows indeed' that ... to bear celibacy"that this burden should not be laid on ...
/.../chapter xxiii face to face.htm

How to Keep Passion Week
... the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free ... this"'to visit the fatherless
and widows in their ... Why should not we, then, keep Passion Week somewhat as ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon i how to keep.htm

Of the Popish Mass. How it not Only Profanes, but Annihilates the ...
... To do injustice to widows, to pillage pupils, to molest ... in those which are of God,
there should be the ... which, even the sacraments themselves are not sacraments ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 18 of the popish.htm

Woes on the Pharisees
... They gained the confidence of pious widows, and then ... But the Pharisees did not leave
these restrictions as God ... all the water used, lest it should contain the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 67 woes on the.htm

Charity and Conflict.
... Yea, for hellish gain, do they not make widows and orphans wholesale ... worth a penny,
or a 1,000 pounds for what 700 pounds should buy; it does not matter the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/booth/godliness/chapter v charity and conflict.htm

The Church.
... tremblings, with the cries of the widows, children, and ... though all the nations on
earth should gather themselves ... Alas, were she not sometimes pruned and trimmed ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the riches of bunyan/xxi the church.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