1 Timothy 5:5

³Honor widows who are widows indeed.

³⁷and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

⁵For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

³²But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

¹⁶If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

¹He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,

⁴He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

¹⁸with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

¹²May the LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

⁷Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?