Bible Verse About Orphans

The Bible has a lot to say about orphans and how we should treat them. The Bible has a lot to say about orphans and how we are to care for them. The Bible is clear that God’s heart is especially for orphans. Below are verses about Orphans.

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 | Image

“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

~John 14:28

“If I have denied the desires of the poor
    or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
¹⁷ if I have kept my bread to myself,
    not sharing it with the fatherless—
¹⁸ but from my youth I reared them as a father would,
    and from my birth I guided the widow—

~Job 31:16-18

Is it not to share your food with the hungry
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood.

~Isaiah 58:7

They slay the widow and the foreigner;
    they murder the fatherless.

~Psalms 94:6

Do not move an ancient boundary stone
    or encroach on the fields of the fatherless.

~Proverbs 23:10

We have become fatherless,
    our mothers are widows.

~Lamentations 5:3

Defend the weak and the fatherless;
    uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

~Psalms 82:3

The Lord watches over the foreigner
    and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
    but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

~Psalms 146:9

But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted;
    you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;
    you are the helper of the fatherless.

~Psalms 10:14

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
    is God in his holy dwelling.

~Psalms 68:5