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Bible Verses About Orphan

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  1. You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

  2. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

  3. My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

  4. He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

  5. At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.

  6. Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

  7. and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

  8. And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

  9. Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

  10. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

  11. If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

  12. When 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.

  13. When 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.

  14. Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

  15. When 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.

  16. Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.

  17. ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

  18. You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

  19. You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

  20. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

  21. The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

  22. because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

  23. The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

  24. If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

  25. if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—