Bible Verses About Widows and Orphans

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.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Let brotherly love continue.

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

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:

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before 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.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

We are orphans and fatherless , our mothers are as widows.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;