orphans

The 13 most-voted verses about orphans, from 8 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 1:27 (BSB)

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.

James 1:27 (KJV)

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 1:27 (WEB)

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

Isaiah 1:17 (BSB)

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:17 (KJV)

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Isaiah 1:17 (WEB)

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

John 14:18 (BSB)

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

John 14:18 (KJV)

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

John 14:18 (WEB)

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

Psalm 82:3 (BSB)

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

Psalm 82:3 (KJV)

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Psalm 82:3 (WEB)

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

Psalm 146:9 (BSB)

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Psalm 146:9 (KJV)

The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

Psalm 146:9 (WEB)

Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.

Psalm 27:10 (BSB)

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Psalm 27:10 (KJV)

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Psalm 27:10 (WEB)

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

Psalm 68:5 (BSB)

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 68:5 (KJV)

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

Psalm 68:5 (WEB)

You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

Exodus 22:22 (BSB)

¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:22 (KJV)

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:22 (WEB)

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

Job 29:12 (BSB)

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.

Job 29:12 (KJV)

because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

Job 29:12 (WEB)

But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:14 (BSB)

Thou hast seen [it;] for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:14 (KJV)

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Psalm 10:14 (WEB)

to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

Psalm 10:18 (BSB)

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Psalm 10:18 (KJV)

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

Psalm 10:18 (WEB)

And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

Matthew 25:40 (BSB)

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.

Matthew 25:40 (KJV)

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:40 (WEB)

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Acts 20:35 (BSB)

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.

Acts 20:35 (KJV)

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Acts 20:35 (WEB)

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