Sha’ul Taught Against Assisting Certain Widows
‘Do not enrol a widow unless she is over sixty years of age, having been the wife of one man, well reported for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the feet of the set-apart ones, if she has assisted the afflicted, if she has closely followed every good work. But refuse the younger widows, for when they become headstrong against the Messiah, they desire to marry, having guilt because they set aside their first belief. Moreover, they learn to be idle, going about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, speaking what is improper. So I resolve that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, giving no occasion to the adversary for reviling. For already some have turned aside after Satan. If any believing man or woman has widows, let such assist them, and do not let the assembly be burdened, in order to assist those who are truly widows.’
- Timotiyos Aleph (1 Timothy) 5:9-16
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1TI.5.9-16
Torah and יהושע Messiah Instructed Followers of יהוה to Assist Widows, While Warning Against Hypocritical Men Holding High Positions in Yisra’el Who Rob Widows
‘“Do not afflict any widow or fatherless child. “If you do afflict them at all – if they cry out to Me at all, I shall certainly hear their cry, and My wrath shall burn and I shall kill you with the sword, your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.’
- Shemoth (Exodus) 22:22-24
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/EXO.22.22-24
‘“Do not twist the right-ruling of a stranger or the fatherless, nor take the garment of a widow. “But you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and that יהוה your Elohim ransomed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this word.’
- Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 24:17-18
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/DEU.24.17-18
‘Cursed is he who twists the right-ruling of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕn!’’
- Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 27:19
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/DEU.27.19
‘“Woe to those making unrighteous inscriptions, and writers who have prescribed toil, to keep the needy back from right-ruling, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that widows become their prey, and orphans their plunder.’
- Yeshayah (Isaiah) 10:1-2
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ISA.10.1-2
‘And the word of יהוה came to Zeḵaryah, saying, “Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘Execute true right-ruling, show loving-commitment and compassion everyone to his brother. “Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’ “But they refused to listen, and they shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears from hearing. “And they made their hearts like flint against hearing the Torah, and the words, which יהוה of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from יהוה of hosts. “And it came to be: as He called and they did not hear, so let them call, but I shall not hear,” said יהוה of hosts.’
- Zeḵaryah (Zechariah) 7:8-13
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ZEC.7.8-13
‘“And I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,” said יהוה of hosts.’
- Mal’aḵi (Malachi) 3:5
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/MAL.3.5
‘Father of the fatherless, And Right-ruler of widows, Is Elohim in His set-apart dwelling. Elohim makes a home for the lonely; He brings out into prosperity Those who are bound with chains; Only the rebellious shall dwell in a dry land.’
- Tehillim (Psalms) 68:5-6
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PSA.68.5-6
‘יהוה guards the strangers, He lifts up the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wrong ones He turns upside down.’
- Tehillim (Psalms) 146:9
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PSA.146.9
‘יהוה tears down the house of the proud, And He sets up the boundary of the widow.’
- Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 15:25
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PRO.15.25
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‘“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you eat up widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. Because of this you shall receive greater judgment.’
- Mattithyahu (Matthew) 23:14
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/MAT.23.14
‘And in His teaching He was saying to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and like greetings in the market-places, and the best seats in the congregations, and the best places at feasts, who are devouring widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. These shall receive greater judgment.”’
- Marqos (Mark) 12:38-40
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/MRK.12.38-40
‘And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart, saying, “In a certain city there was a certain judge, not fearing Elohim nor regarding man. “And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, ‘Do right to me on my adversary.’ And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, ‘Even if I do not fear Elohim nor regard man,” yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.’ ” And the Master said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge said. “And shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them? “I say to you that He shall do right to them speedily. But when the Son of Aḏam comes, shall He find the belief on the earth?”’
- Luqas (Luke) 18:1-8
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/LUK.18.1-8
‘Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.’
- Ya‛aqoḇ (James) 1:27
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/JAS.1.27
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