Bible Verses about 'Orphans'

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• I will not leave you orphans;
  I will come to you.
  John 14:18comforterJesusSpirit
• Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and undefiled is this: to come to the aid of orphans and widows in their hardships and to keep oneself untarnished by the world.
  James 1:27sinblamelesswidows
• You shall not oppress the widow or the orphan. If you mistreat them and they cry out to me for help, I will surely hear their cry, and my fury will burn and I will put you to death by the sword. Your wives will be widows and your children will be orphans.
  Exodus 22:21-23widowsorphans
• Sing to God, sing praise to his name;
  exalt him who rides upon the clouds.
  Rejoice in the presence of this God
  whose name is the Lord.
  The Father of orphans and the defender of widows:
  such is God in his holy dwelling place.
  Psalm 68:5-6holinesssafetyworship
• And learn to do good.
  Pursue justice and rescue the oppressed;
  listen to the plea of the orphan
  and defend the widow.
  Isaiah 1:17righteousnessneighborwidows
• The Lord watches over the stranger
  and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
  but he blocks the way of the wicked.
  Psalm 146:9protectionorphanswidows
• Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render fair judgments, and show kindness and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor. Do not plot evil in your heart against one another.
  Zechariah 7:9-10evilrighteousnessneighbor
• Because I delivered the poor who appealed for help
  and the orphan who had no one to protect him.
  The blessing of the wretched was given to me,
  and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
  Job 29:12-13widowsorphanspoverty
• Grant justice to the weak and the orphan;
  defend the rights of the lowly and the poor.
  Psalm 82:3orphansneighborrighteousness
• However, if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you are upright in your dealings with your neighbor; if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow; if you do not shed innocent blood in this place; and if you do not follow other gods and thereby cause your own destruction, then I will allow you to live in this place, in the land that I gave as a permanent gift to your fathers long ago.
  Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsorphans