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Gloria Copeland — The Lord Watches Over The Widows and OrphansPosted on November 18th, 2009
Jeremiah 29:11
KJV—For I know the thoughts that I think
toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of
peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected
end.
Amp—For I know the thoughts and plans
that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts
and plans for welfare and peace, and not for
evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.
NAS—“For I know the plans I have for
you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper
you and not to harm you, plans to give
you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 49:11
KJV—Leave thy fatherless children, I will
preserve them alive; and let thy widows
trust in me.
NIV—Leave your orphans; I will protect
their lives. Your widows too can trust in me.
Amp—Leave your fatherless children, I will
[do what is necessary to] preserve them
alive; and let [those made] your widows
trust and confide in Me.
1 Corinthians 7:32
NKJV—But I want you to be without
care. He who is unmarried cares for the
things that belong to the Lord—how he
may please the Lord.
NIV—I would like you to be free from
concern. An unmarried man is concerned
about the Lord’s affairs—how he can
please the Lord.
Amp—My desire is to have you free from
all anxiety and distressing care. The unmarried
[man] is anxious about the things
of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:34
NKJV—There is a difference between a
wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman
cares about the things of the Lord, that
she may be holy both in body and in spirit.
NIV—An unmarried woman or virgin is
concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her
aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both
body and spirit.
Amp—And the unmarried woman or girl
is concerned and anxious about the matters
of the Lord, how to be wholly separated
and set apart in body and spirit.
1 Timothy 5:3-5
KJV—Honour widows that are widows
indeed…. Now she that is a widow indeed,
and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth
in supplications and prayers night and day.
NIV—Give proper recognition to those widows
who are really in need…. The widow who
is really in need and left all alone puts her
hope in God and continues night and day to
pray and to ask God for help.
Amp—[Always] treat with great consideration
and give aid to those who are truly
widowed—solitary and without support….
Now [a woman] who is a real widow, and
is left entirely alone and desolate, has
fixed her hope on God and perseveres in
supplications and prayers night and day.
James 1:27
KJV—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.
NIV—Religion that God our Father accepts
as pure and faultless is this: to look
after orphans and widows in their distress
and to keep oneself from being polluted
by the world.
Weymouth—The religion which is pure
and stainless in the sight of our God and
Father is to visit orphans and widows in
their time of trouble, and to keep one’s
own self unspotted from the world.
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Gloria Copeland — Single-And Married to HimPosted on November 12th, 2009
Exodus 22:22-23
KJV—Ye shall not afflict any widow, or
fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any
wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will
surely hear their cry.
NKJV—You shall not afflict any widow or
fatherless child. If you afflict them in any
way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely
hear their cry.
NIV—Do not take advantage of a widow
or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to
me, I will certainly hear their cry.
Deuteronomy 14:29
KJV—The fatherless, and the widow,
which are within thy gates, shall come,
and shall eat and be satisfied.
NKJV—The fatherless and the widow
who are within your gates, may come and
eat and be satisfied.
NIV—The fatherless and the widows who
live in your towns may come and eat and
be satisfied.
Psalm 68:5
KJV—A father of the fatherless, and a
judge of the widows, is God in his holy
habitation.
NIV—A father to the fatherless, a defender
of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Amp—A father of the fatherless, and a
judge and protector of the widows, is God
in His holy habitation.
Psalm 68:6
NIV—God sets the lonely in families.
Amp—God places the solitary in families and
gives the desolate a home in which to dwell.
NAS—God makes a home for the lonely.
Psalm 146:9
KJV—The Lord preserveth the strangers;
he relieveth the fatherless and widow.
NKJV—The Lord watches over the strangers;
He relieves the fatherless and widow.
NIV—The Lord watches over the alien
and sustains the fatherless and the widow.
Proverbs 15:25
KJV—The Lord will destroy the house of
the proud: but he will establish the border
of the widow.
NKJV—The Lord will destroy the house
of the proud, but He will establish the
boundary of the widow.
NIV—The Lord tears down the proud
man’s house but he keeps the widow’s
boundaries intact.
Isaiah 54:5
KJV—For thy Maker is thine husband;
the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy
Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God
of the whole earth shall he be called.
NKJV—For your Maker is your husband,
the Lord of hosts is His name; and your
Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is
called the God of the whole earth.
NIV—For your Maker is your husband—
the Lord Almighty is his name—the Holy
One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is
called the God of all the earth.