widows and orphans
What does the Bible say about widows and orphans? 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.
17Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.
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.
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.
22You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.
3Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.
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.
19Cursed be he who subverts the judgment of the new arrival, the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.
12This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper. 13The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.