12 Bible Verses About The Orphan
12 Bible verses about The Orphan to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
To God the Father, religion that is pure and untainted looks like this: going to the help of orphans and widows in their trouble, and keeping yourself unstained by the world.
From his holy dwelling God acts as father to orphans and defender of widows.
He sees that orphans and widows get justice, and he loves the outsider living among you and gives them food and clothing.
Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride on horses. Never again will we say ‘Our god’ to what our own hands have made, for in you the orphan finds compassion.”
But you do see! You take note of trouble and grief and take the matter into your own hands. The helpless entrust themselves to you; you have always helped the orphan.
The LORD protects the foreigners living in the land; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but he overturns the way of the wicked.
You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Leave your orphans behind; I will keep them alive. Let your widows trust in me.
Learn to do good. Go after justice. Set the oppressor straight. Give the fatherless child a fair hearing; stand up for the widow in court.
Do not deny justice to the outsider or the fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s cloak in pledge.
If my father and my mother were to leave me, the LORD would still gather me in.
Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the outsider or the poor. And do not plot evil against one another in your hearts.