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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.

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.

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.

⁶the father of orphans and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place.

¹⁰For my father and my mother have left me behind, but the Lord has taken me up.

²²You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.

¹²This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.

¹“Pay attention, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, who is in heaven. ²Therefore, when you give alms, do not choose to sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the towns, so that they may be honored by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. ³But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴so that your almsgiving may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.

³⁵I have revealed all things to you, because by laboring in this way, it is necessary 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.’ ”

¹⁵If you love me, keep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give another Advocate to you, so that he may abide with you for eternity: ¹⁷the Spirit of Truth, whom the world is not able to accept, because it neither perceives him nor knows him. But you shall know him. For he will remain with you, and he will be in you. ¹⁸I will not leave you orphans. I will return to you. ¹⁹Yet a little while and the world will not see me any longer. But you will see me. For I live, and you shall live. ²⁰In that day, you shall know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

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.

³⁹so as to judge for the orphan and the humble, so that man may no longer presume to magnify himself upon the earth.

⁴⁰And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.’

³⁵You do see, for you examine hardship and sorrow, so that you may deliver them into your hands. The poor one has been abandoned to you. You will be a helper to the orphan.