ABOUT ORPHAN (4)

1. Bible Verses and Quotes

a) The Scriptures include many verses discussing orphans, as the Lord asks Christians to be kind and generous to the fatherless children of the world. 

Job 6:27
You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.

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.

Esther 2:7
Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.

Psalm 10:18
defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.

Acts 20:35
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' "

Jeremiah 7:6
if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm.