Bible verses about Orphans
Verses about orphans and the call to defend and provide for them.
You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
Exodus 22:22He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:18Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Deuteronomy 24:17When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:20When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
Deuteronomy 26:12‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:19But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 10:14to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
Psalms 10:18Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
Psalms 27:10A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
Psalms 68:5Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Psalms 82:3The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
Psalms 146:9Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Proverbs 23:10Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
Isaiah 1:17This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 22:3Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
Hosea 14:3I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27