What the Bible says about: Orphans
Exodus 22:22-24 | Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. |
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; | |
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. | |
Deuteronomy 10:18 | He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. |
Deuteronomy 24:17-22 | Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: |
But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in |
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When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. | |
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. | |
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it |
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of |
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Psalms 10:14 |
Thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor |
Psalms 10:17-18 |
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt |
To judge the fatherless and the |
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Psalms 27:10 |
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD |
Psalms 68:5 | A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. |
Psalms 82:3 |
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Psalms 146:9 | The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. |
James 1:27 | Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. |
Exodus 22:22-24 |
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. |
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; |
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. |
Deuteronomy 10:18 |
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. |
Deuteronomy 24:17-22 |
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: |
But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in |
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. |
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. |
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it |
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of |
Psalms 10:14 |
Thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor |
Psalms 10:17-18 |
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt |
To judge the fatherless and the |
Psalms 27:10 |
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD |
Psalms 68:5 |
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. |
Psalms 82:3 |
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Psalms 146:9 |
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. |
James 1:27 |
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. |