If then they abide in the same evil desire, they are dead and there is no hope of life for them. They that have the spots are deacons that exercised their office ill, and plundered the livelihood of widows and orphans, and made gain for themselves from the ministrations which they had received to perform. You shall reckon up the amount of that dayвЂ™s expenditure, of the cost of food you would have eaten on the day on which you intend to fast, and shall give it to a widow, or an orphan, or to one in want, and so shall you humble your soul, that he that has received from your humiliation may satisfy his own soul, and may pray for you to the Lord.

Hear now what follow upon these to minister to widows, to visit the orphans and the needy, to ransom the servants of God from their afflictions, to be hospitable (for in hospitality benevolence from time to time has a place). Let nothing be done without your consent neither do you anything without the consent of God, as indeed you doest not. Our widows must be sober-minded as touching the faith of the Lord, making intercession without ceasing for all men, abstaining from all calumny, evil speaking, false witness, love of money, and every evil thing, knowing that they are GodвЂ™s altar, and that all sacrifices are carefully inspected, and nothing escapes Him either of their thoughts or intents or any of the secret things of the heart. 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. And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.В Job 29:12-17 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widowвЂ™s heart to sing for joy. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

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