Happy New Year!!
Exodus 22:22-24 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; you wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
Deuteronomy 10:18-19 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing. And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 14:28-29 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 16:10-11 Then celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you. And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name-you…and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows living among you.
Deuteronomy 24:19 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.
Deuteronomy 26:12 When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, fatherless or the widow.
Psalm 10:14 But you, O God, do not see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 68:5-6a A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families…
Isaiah 1:17 …Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 10:1-2 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.
Jeremiah 5:28 Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not plead the case of the fatherless to win it, they do not defend the rights of the poor.
Jeremiah 7:6 If you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and…then I will let you live in this place…
Jeremiah 22:3 Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow…
Job 29:12 because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist him.
Job 31:17 if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless-
Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor.
Malachi 3:5 …I will be quick to testify against …those who oppress the widows and the fatherless…
John 14:18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Ephesians 1:4-5,14 In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will. …you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God/s possession- to the praise of his glory.
Titus 3:7 …so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.
James 1:27 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 this world.
I John 3:1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
I praise you, Lord, for your heart for the orphan and adopting me to be your daughter, a daughter of the King of Kings!
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