Bible Verses about “orphan”

“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.”

“¶ ‹I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.›”

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

“Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.”

“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.”

“If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;”

“And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”

“And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which [are] within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.”

“At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy gates:”

“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.”

“The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.”

“And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.”

“Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:”

“For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;”

“[If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:”

“Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.”