Top 30 Bible Verses about Orphans and Widows

You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.

A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation.

The LORD watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.

Thus says the LORD: Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

To crush under one’s feet all the prisoners of the earth, to turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High, or subvert a man in his cause—the Lord does not approve.

And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans; and against those who turn away an alien—because they do not fear Me, says the LORD of hosts.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.

Honor widows who are really widows.

If any believing man or woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are really widows.

Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud, but He will establish the boundary of the widow.

To turn aside the needy from justice, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless.

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other.

Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless and the one who had no helper.

And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?

Do not remove the ancient landmark, nor enter the fields of the fatherless.

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

But you have seen, for you observe trouble and grief, to repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor, weak points.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.