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Bible Verses About helping the widows and orphans

17 key scriptures

Explore what the Bible says about helping the widows and orphans. This collection of 17 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: James 1:27
King James (KJV)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.

17 Key Scriptures

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.
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. relieve: or, righten
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.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. oppress: or, defraud
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: Execute: Heb. Judge judgment of truth
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Defend: Heb. Judge
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

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