Bible Verses about “orphans”
The Bible contains 27 verses about orphans across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.”
“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.”
“If you love me, keep my commandments.”
“Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.”
“so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”
“But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,”
“In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"”
“I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,--”
“I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.”
“the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.”
“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."”
“One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."”
“"The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'”
“In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.”
“Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.”
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.”
“"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.”
“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.'”
“to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.”
“"Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.”
“But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.”
“Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,”