Bible Verses About Orphan
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for orphan, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 380 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 Orphan
James 1:2735 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.
John 14:1834 votes
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Isaiah 1:1728 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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.
Exodus 22:2221 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Psalms 82:321 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Jeremiah 7:5-720 votes
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Deuteronomy 14:28-2919 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:
Exodus 22:22-2416 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Psalms 68:516 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Zechariah 7:9-1015 votes
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Job 29:12-1313 votes
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Psalms 10:1413 votes
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 68:4-513 votes
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
Psalms 82:1-83:1813 votes
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
Psalms 146:1-149:913 votes
Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.
Jeremiah 22:313 votes
Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
John 14:1-18:4013 votes
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Job 29:1212 votes
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Deuteronomy 10:1810 votes
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 24:1710 votes
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
1 Timothy 5:810 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.
What does the Bible say about orphan?
Readers most often cite James 1:27 on the subject of orphan. Across 380 votes, 22 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including John 14:18, Isaiah 1:17, Psalms 146:9. This page lists all 22 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.