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Want to know what the Bible says about Orphans? Here are 55 Bible verses about Orphans from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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James 1:27 NIV
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.
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Exodus 22:22-24 NIV
22 “Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. 23 If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. 24 My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
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Isaiah 1:17 NIV
Learn to do right; seek justice.
    Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
    plead the case of the widow.
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Psalm 68:5 NIV
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
    is God in his holy dwelling.
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Psalm 27:10 NIV
Though my father and mother forsake me,
    the Lord will receive me.
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Psalm 82:3 NIV
Defend the weak and the fatherless;
    uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
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Job 29:12 NIV
because I rescued the poor who cried for help,
    and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
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Psalm 146:9 NIV
The Lord watches over the foreigner
    and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
    but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
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