Talált 100 Eredmények: rights of the widow
In you, Israel, father and mother are treated with contempt, in you the alien is oppressed, the fatherless and the widow are wronged. (Ezekiel 22, 7)
They are not to marry widows or divorced women, but only virgins of the race of Israel; they may, however, marry widows, if it is the widow of a priest. (Ezekiel 44, 22)
Woe to those whose decrees are bitterness, not justice, who trample on the rights! (Amos 5, 7)
Do horses run on craggy cliffs? Does anyone plow the sea with oxen? Well, you have turned the rights into a poisonous plant and the sentences of the court into wormwood. (Amos 6, 12)
I will bear the wrath of Yahweh - for I have sinned against him - while he examines my cause and defends my rights. Then he will bring me out to the light and I shall probe his justice. (Micah 7, 9)
Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor, do not plot evil in your heart against one another. (Zechariah 7, 10)
When I came to you to do justice I shall demand the immediate punishment of the sorcerers and the adulterers, of those who swear false oaths, who oppress the wage-earner, the widow and the orphan, who do not respect the rights of the foreigner. They do all this and have no fear of me, says Yahweh. (Malachi 3, 5)
They even devour the widow's and the orphan's goods while making a show of long prayers. How severe a sentence they will receive!" (Mark 12, 40)
But a poor widow also came and dropped in two small coins. (Mark 12, 42)
Then Jesus called his disciples and said to them, "Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all those who gave offerings. (Mark 12, 43)
There was also a prophetess named Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. After leaving her father's home, she had been seven years with her husband, and since then she had been continually about the Temple, serving God as a widow night and day in fasting and prayer. (Luke 2, 36)
Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow of Zarephath, in the country of Sidon. (Luke 4, 26)
