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What does the Bible say about helping the widows and orphans?

18 verses about helping the widows and orphans, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about helping the widows and orphans

James 1:27 — 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. 10 votes
Exodus 22:22 — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 6 votes
Psalms 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 5 votes
1 John 3:17 — But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 5 votes
Isaiah 1:17 — Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 4 votes
Exodus 22:21 — Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 3 votes
Deuteronomy 24:19 — When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 3 votes
Psalms 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 3 votes
Malachi 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. 3 votes
Deuteronomy 10:18 — He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 2 votes
Deuteronomy 14:28 — 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: 2 votes
Deuteronomy 14:29 — 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. 2 votes
Psalms 82:3 — Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. 2 votes
Isaiah 10:1 — Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 votes
Zechariah 7:9 — Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 2 votes
Matthew 5:1 — And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 votes
Matthew 5:7 — Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 2 votes
Acts 20:35 — I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought 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. 2 votes

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Deuteronomy (4), Psalms (3), Exodus (2), Isaiah (2), Matthew (2), Zechariah (1), Malachi (1), Acts (1), James (1), 1 John (1)

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