orphan
What does the Bible say about orphan? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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27This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.
18I will not leave you orphans. I will return to you.
17Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.
3Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.
9The Lord watches over new arrivals. He will support the orphan and the widow. And he will destroy the ways of sinners.
22You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.
5For if you direct your ways and your intentions well, if you exercise judgment between a man and his neighbor, 6if you do not act with deceit toward the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow, and if you do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and if you do not walk after strange gods, which is to your own harm, 7then I will live with you in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from the beginning and even forever.
28In the third year, you shall separate another tenth part of all the things which spring forth for you at that time, and you shall store it within your gates. 29And the Levite, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall do.”
22You shall not harm a widow or an orphan. 23If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry. 24And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.
6the father of orphans and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place.
9Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge with true judgment, and act with mercy and compassion, each and every one with his brother. 10And do not find fault with the widow, and the orphan, and the newcomer, and the poor. And let not a man consider evil in his heart towards his brother.