Bible Verses About Orphans
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for orphans, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,125 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 Orphans
James 1:27436 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 22:22-24391 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
John 14:18368 votes
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Isaiah 1:17357 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Psalms 82:3262 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms 146:9238 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Psalms 68:5217 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 27:10191 votes
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
Exodus 22:22153 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Job 29:12150 votes
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Matthew 6:1-4115 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Acts 20:35115 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.
John 14:15-21111 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Zechariah 7:9-10107 votes
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Psalms 10:18103 votes
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Matthew 25:40102 votes
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Psalms 10:1497 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.
Jeremiah 7:5-793 votes
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Psalms 68:4-590 votes
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
Job 29:12-1389 votes
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Deuteronomy 14:28-2987 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:
Psalms 146:1-149:986 votes
Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.
Psalms 82:1-83:1882 votes
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
John 14:1-18:4082 votes
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Proverbs 23:1074 votes
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
What does the Bible say about orphans?
Readers most often cite James 1:27 on the subject of orphans. Across 6,125 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 22:22-24, John 14:18, Isaiah 1:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.