Orphan: General Scriptures Concerning
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Exodus 22:22-24
You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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Deuteronomy 10:18
He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
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Deuteronomy 14:28,29
At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
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Deuteronomy 16:11,14
And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.
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Deuteronomy 24:17-22
You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
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Deuteronomy 26:12,13
When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;
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Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Job 6:27
Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.
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Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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Job 24:3,9
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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Job 29:12,13
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
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Job 31:16-18,21
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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Psalm 10:14,17,18
You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
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Psalm 27:10
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
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Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Psalm 82:3
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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Psalm 94:6
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
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Psalm 146:9
The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
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Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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Isaiah 1:17,23
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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Isaiah 10:1,2
Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
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Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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Jeremiah 7:6,7
If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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Jeremiah 22:3
Thus said the LORD; Execute you 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.
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Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
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Hosea 14:3
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you the fatherless finds mercy.
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Malachi 3:5
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, said the LORD of hosts.
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James 1:27
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.
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Chapter I Beginning and Early Days of the Orphan Work.
... peace."Further, when in connection with the Orphan-Houses, Day ... he has not only learned
from the Scriptures what a ... own word, will lead us, in general at least ...
/.../muller/answers to prayer/chapter i beginning and early.htm

From the Close of the General Conference of 1832 to the Beginning ...
... the original languages in which the Scriptures of truth ... The general facts being
communicated to the world ... by a Mr. Ball, whose letters concerning the state of ...
/.../chapter 12 from the close.htm

The General Conference of 1840
... a portion of the Holy Scriptures and prayer. ... 89,781 members since our last General
Conference ... and confidence, your brotherly suggestions concerning slavery, and ...
/.../chapter 15 the general conference.htm

George Muller, and the Secret of His
... that the Spirit teaches, applying the general principles or ... means for this enlargement
of the Orphan work, which ... all in the light of the Holy Scriptures and in ...
/.../murray/with christ in the school of prayer/george muller and the secret.htm

Saurin -- Paul Before Felix and Drusilla
... maintained the right of the widow and the orphan. ... state, the solemnities of a general
judgment, supply ... that disciple of Jesus Christ expounded the Scriptures. ...
/.../kleiser/the worlds great sermons volume 3/saurin paul before felix.htm

2 Timothy iii. 16, 17
... Thou hast the Scriptures, he says, in place of me. ... son was sitting by him, bewailing
his orphan state, might ... Here again he calls virtue in general righteousness ...
/.../homily ix 2 timothy iii.htm

The Fourth Continental Journey.
... views and practices becoming more general, and the ... a colporteur, and introduces the
Holy Scriptures into families ... the superintendence of the Orphan Asylum, and ...
/.../chapter xv the fourth continental.htm

Ananias and Sapphira.
... be made to the widow, the fatherless, and the orphan. ... It is a fact ascertained by
the Scriptures, that Satan ... In general, "no man knoweth love or hatred by all ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture vi ananias and sapphira.htm

Things Unknown
... In introducing, to your notice, the great general truth, "Call ... God to send me money
to build an Orphan House to ... our views to the test of the Sacred Scriptures. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 46 1900/things unknown.htm

The Feast at Simon's House
... There was a general inquiry as to whether Lazarus ... his oppression of the widow, the
orphan, and the ... In the Scriptures, Mary's anointing of Jesus is mentioned as ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 62 the feast at.htm

Resources
Should a Christian consider foster care? | GotQuestions.org

Who/what was Tirzah in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Did Esther have sex with Xerxes before they were married? | GotQuestions.org

Orphan: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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