Does anyone know the Bible verse about "comforting widows

[Hardrada]

and the afflicted?" I think that's how it goes. I think it is one of the Christian duties but I don't recall where it is in the NT.

[bluesbassman]

1. Maybe James 1:27?

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

[Hardrada]

4. Thanks, I think that is the passage I was trying to remember.

[1Hippiechick]

2. Link to topic "widows" bible passages

http://www.bible-topics.com/Widows.html

[Hardrada]

5. Thanks. This is very useful link!

[flvegan]

3. Isaiah 1:17, maybe?

learn to do right!
Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed.
Defend the cause of the fatherless,
plead the case of the widow.

Or, from the KJV

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

[Hardrada]

6. Thanks!

[kwassa]

7. Today's lectionary in the Episcopal Church

which also contains this memorable line from James:

"faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead."

[Hardrada]

8. Martin Luther was not too fond of the book of James but I always

found it quotable and to the point.