Widows And Orphans

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.

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.

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

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

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

“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. — read the full passage →

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

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

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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 →

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

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 →

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

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 →

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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.

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

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

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

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

“You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

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,

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

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:

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

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

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.

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

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

“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 →

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.’”

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

“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.

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?

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.

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.

“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 →

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.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

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.

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

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 →

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.

“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.’

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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.’

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

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

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.”

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.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

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

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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 →

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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 →

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.

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

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

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 →

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

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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

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

When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled. — read the full passage →

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;

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.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? — 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.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

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

In you have they set light by father and mother; in your midst have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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 →

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.