Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'widow' occurs 60 times in the standard works.

17 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'widow' in the standard works and contain 28.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Deut. 24:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 44:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 26:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 17:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 12:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 5:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:83-84 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 42 16 58
NT 13 14 27
Matt. 0 1 1
Mark 2 1 3
Luke 7 2 9
Acts 0 3 3
1 Cor. 0 1 1
1 Tim. 3 5 8
James 0 1 1
Rev. 1 0 1
BM 2 8 10
DC 3 3 6
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 60 41 101

Matt. 23:14
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Mark 12:40
Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

Luke 4:25
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

Luke 20:47
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Acts 6:1
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Acts 9:39
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

Acts 9:41
And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.

1 Cor. 7:8
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

1 Tim. 5:3
Honour widows that are widows indeed.

1 Tim. 5:11
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

1 Tim. 5:16
If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.