Bible Verses about Orphans

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• You shall not oppress any widow or orphan. If you oppress him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will assuredly hear his cry; and My anger will be kindled, 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 am coming to you.
  John 14:18comforterJesusSpirit
• Learn to do good;
  Seek justice,
  Rebuke the oppressor,
  Obtain justice for the orphan,
  Plead for the widow’s case.
  Isaiah 1:17righteousnessneighborwidows
• Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  James 1:27sinblamelesswidows
• Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
  Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
  Psalm 82:3neighborrighteousnessweakness
• Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
  Exalt Him who rides through the deserts,
  Whose name is the Lord, and be jubilant before Him.
  A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
  Is God in His holy dwelling.
  Psalm 68:4-5holinesssafetyworship
• The Lord watches over strangers;
  He supports the fatherless and the widow,
  But He thwarts the way of the wicked.
  Psalm 146:9protectionwidowspunishment
• This is what the Lord of armies has said: ‘Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother; and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’
  Zechariah 7:9-10evilrighteousnessneighbor
• Because I saved the poor who cried for help,
  And the orphan who had no helper.
  The blessing of the one who was about to perish came upon me,
  And I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
  Job 29:12-13widowspovertysinging
• For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
  Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsblessing