What does the Bible say about orphan?

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• James 1:27

  Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

• John 14:18

  I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow."

• Psalms 82:3

  "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

• Psalms 146:9

  Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

• Exodus 22:22

  "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

• Jeremiah 7:5-7

  [5] For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; [6] if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: [7] then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.

• Deuteronomy 14:28-29

  [28] At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: [29] and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

• Psalms 68:5

  A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

• Exodus 22:22-24

  [22] "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. [23] If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; [24] and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

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