Bible Verses About Helping the Widows and Orphans
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for helping the widows and orphans, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 636 votes, led by James 1:27. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Helping the Widows and Orphans
James 1:2793 votes
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.
Exodus 22:2263 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
1 John 3:1753 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Psalms 68:542 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Isaiah 1:1736 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:1929 votes
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Malachi 3:529 votes
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Matthew 5:725 votes
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Exodus 22:21-2524 votes
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Psalms 146:922 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Matthew 5:1-4819 votes
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
Deuteronomy 14:2918 votes
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Psalms 82:318 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deuteronomy 10:1817 votes
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 14:28-2916 votes
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
Acts 20:3515 votes
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.
Isaiah 10:1-3414 votes
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Zechariah 7:9-1014 votes
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Hosea 14:313 votes
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Proverbs 19:1712 votes
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Deuteronomy 27:1911 votes
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Psalms 82:3-411 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Jeremiah 49:1111 votes
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
1 Timothy 5:811 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Job 29:12-1310 votes
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
What does the Bible say about helping the widows and orphans?
Readers most often cite James 1:27 on the subject of helping the widows and orphans. Across 636 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 22:22, 1 John 3:17, Psalms 68:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.