Bible Verses about Orphans

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• You shall not abuse any widow or orphan. If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry; my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.
  Exodus 22:22-24widows
• I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.
  John 14:18comforterJesusSpirit
• Learn to do good;
  seek justice,
  rescue the oppressed,
  defend the orphan,
  plead for the widow.
  Isaiah 1:17righteousnessneighborwidows
• Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  James 1:27sinblamelesswidows
• Give justice to the weak and the orphan;
  maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.
  Psalm 82:3neighborrighteousnessweakness
• Sing to God, sing praises to his name;
  lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds —
  his name is the Lord—
  be exultant before him.
  Father of orphans and protector of widows
  is God in his holy habitation.
  Psalm 68:4-5holinesssafetyworship
• The Lord watches over the strangers;
  he upholds the orphan and the widow,
  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 orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
  Zechariah 7:9-10evilrighteousnessneighbor
• Because I delivered the poor who cried,
  and the orphan who had no helper.
  The blessing of the wretched 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 doings, if you truly act justly one with another, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever.
  Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsblessing