The basis for this is James 1:27, which says ???religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.??? Psalm 68:5 says the Lord is a ???father to the fatherless, a defender of widows??? and while Jesus was on the cross, one of the things He was concerned about was the care of His widowed mother (John 19:27).