Quotes About Fatherless

God says we shouldn't take advantage of the fatherless (Exodus 22:22) and that true religion looks after the fatherless (James 1:27). It's time for the church to flex some real muscle on behalf of the weak and the needy.

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widowís cloak as security.

When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.

ëCursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widowís ox in pledge.

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.