25 Bible Verses About Widows And Fatherless

The Bible speaks extensively about caring for the widows and fatherless.

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. | 1 Timothy 6:17

And having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work. | 1 Timothy 5:10

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. | Acts 19:1

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. | Galatians 5:22

Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked. | Psalm 37:16

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him. |
Job 29:12

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. | Romans 14:23

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. | 1 Timothy 5:8

Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen. | Deuteronomy 27:19

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. | James 1:17

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. | Psalm 68:5

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. | Psalm 82:3

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord. | Jeremiah 22:16

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. | Philippians 4:12

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called. | Ephesians 4:1

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause. | Isaiah 1:17

Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me. | Jeremiah 49:11

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. | James 1:27

Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. | Galatians 2:10

She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day. | 1 Timothy 5:5

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone. | Ephesians 2:19-20

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.| John 15:12

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. | James 2:14-17

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? | James 2:14

You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning. | Leviticus 19:13

We’ve have already see that God is father to the fatherless and that He helps the fatherless.So we should do the same as God does.