Bible Verses about “orphan”
The Bible contains 16 verses about orphan across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
“I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.”
“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."”
“"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.”
“"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”
“If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;”
“and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”
“and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.”
“At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:”
“A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
“Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.”
“Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'”
“"Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.”
“For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;”
“if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:”
“then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.”