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"Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan.
If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.
My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
Exodus Chapter 22: Verses 22 - 24
He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy Chapter 10: Verse 18
At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns,
so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy Chapter 14: Verses 28 - 29
And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name,you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, the Levites in your towns, and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows living among you.
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees. Feast of Tabernacles
Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.
Be joyful at your Feast,you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites, the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.
Deuteronomy Chapter 16: Verses 11 - 14
Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.
Deuteronomy Chapter 24: Verse 17
When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow.
When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow.
Deuteronomy Chapter 24: Verses 19 - 21
If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me."
Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, "I do not want to marry her,"
his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, "This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line."
That man's line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
Deuteronomy Chapter 25: Verses 5 - 10
"Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
Deuteronomy Chapter 27: Verse 19
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
Job Chapter 22: Verse 5
They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge.
Job Chapter 24: Verse 3
They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow show no kindness.
Job Chapter 24: Verse 21
The man who was dying blessed me; I made the widow's heart sing.
Job Chapter 29: Verse 13
"If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
Job Chapter 31: Verse 16
then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.
Job Chapter 31: Verse 22
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Psalms Chapter 68: Verse 5
They slay the widow and the alien; they murder the fatherless.
Psalms Chapter 94: Verse 6
The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
Psalms Chapter 146: Verse 9
The LORD tears down the proud man's house but he keeps the widow's boundaries intact.
Proverbs Chapter 15: Verse 25
learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah Chapter 1: Verse 17
Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.
Isaiah Chapter 1: Verse 23
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,
to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Isaiah Chapter 10: Verses 1 - 2
if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,
then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever.
Jeremiah Chapter 7: Verses 6 - 7
This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah Chapter 22: Verse 3
Leave your orphans; I will protect their lives. Your widows too can trust in me."
Jeremiah Chapter 49: Verse 11
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other.'
Zechariah Chapter 7: Verse 10
"So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty. Robbing God
Malachi Chapter 3: Verse 5
In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
Acts Chapter 6: Verse 1
Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.
The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.
But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
1 Timothy Chapter 5: Verses 3 - 6
No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,
and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the saints, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.
As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry.
Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge.
1 Timothy Chapter 5: Verses 9 - 12
If any woman who is a believer has widows in her family, she should help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need.
1 Timothy Chapter 5: Verse 16
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James Chapter 1: Verse 27
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