Orphan

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.

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

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

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

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

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

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; — read the full passage →

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. — read the full passage →

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

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. — read the full passage →

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul. — read the full passage →

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods. — read the full passage →

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him! — read the full passage →

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

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, — read the full passage →

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

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

“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.’

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

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

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, — read the full passage →

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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.’”

If you love me, keep my commandments. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. — read the full passage →

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. — read the full passage →

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, — read the full passage →

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap;

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! — read the full passage →

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. — read the full passage →

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, — read the full passage →

All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. — read the full passage →

They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,