Bible Verses about “widows and orphans”
The Bible contains 13 verses about widows and orphans across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“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.”
“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:”
“Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
“Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.”
“The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.”