Bible Verses about Orphans

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• You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
  Exodus 22:22-24widows
• I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
  John 14:18comforterJesusSpirit
• Learn to do good;
  seek justice,
  correct oppression;
  bring justice to the fatherless,
  plead the widow's cause.
  Isaiah 1:17righteousnessneighborwidows
• Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
  James 1:27sinblamelesswidows
• Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
  maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
  Psalm 82:3neighborrighteousnessweakness
• Sing to God, sing praises to his name;
  lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts;
  his name is the Lord;
  exult before him!
  Father of the fatherless and protector of widows
  is God in his holy habitation.
  Psalm 68:4-5holinesssafetyworship
• The Lord watches over the sojourners;
  he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
  but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
  Psalm 146:9protectionwidowspunishment
• Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.
  Zechariah 7:9-10evilrighteousnessneighbor
• Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
  and the fatherless who had none to help him.
  The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me,
  and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
  Job 29:12-13widowspovertysinging
• For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
  Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsblessing