Bible Verses About Widows and Orphans
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for widows and orphans, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 66,771 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 Widows and Orphans
James 1:273,108 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.
Isaiah 1:172,356 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Psalms 146:91,789 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Psalms 68:51,739 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Zechariah 7:9-101,377 votes
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Exodus 22:221,329 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Psalms 82:31,285 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Exodus 22:22-241,227 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Deuteronomy 27:191,080 votes
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 29:12-131,028 votes
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Hebrews 13:1-251,017 votes
Let brotherly love continue.
James 2:1-261,010 votes
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
1 Timothy 5:5954 votes
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
Isaiah 1:23950 votes
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Jeremiah 7:5-7934 votes
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Deuteronomy 10:18902 votes
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 14:28-29879 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:
John 14:18872 votes
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Psalms 68:4-5866 votes
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
Deuteronomy 14:29863 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.
1 Timothy 5:8857 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.
Psalms 94:6842 votes
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Lamentations 5:3823 votes
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Psalms 10:14822 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.
Exodus 22:21-24817 votes
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
What does the Bible say about widows and orphans?
Readers most often cite James 1:27 on the subject of widows and orphans. Across 66,771 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 1:17, Psalms 146:9, Psalms 68:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.