Relationships and family
What does the Bible say about orphans?
God is called a father to the fatherless, and His people are told to defend and care for children without parents.
What Scripture says
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.”
Psalm 68:5-6
“A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.”
Deuteronomy 10:18
“He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.”
Hosea 14:3
“Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.””
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