Some scripture references/categories courtesy of Open Bible. If a verse or topic does not belong, please contact us. When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increase in the. You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge. Topics and verses are auto-generated from user searches. and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’. Psalms 82:3 - Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.Īcts 6:1 - And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.Įxodus 22:22-23 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 4 But if she has children or grandchildren, their first responsibility is to show godliness at home and repay their parents by taking care of them. James 1:27 - Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.ġ Timothy 5:8 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.ĭeuteronomy 15:7-11 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: (Read More.)ĭeuteronomy 24:17-21 - Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: (Read More.)ġ Timothy 5:1-25 - Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren (Read More.)ġ Timothy 5:9 - Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,ĭeuteronomy 14:28-29 - At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: (Read More.) 3 Take care of any widow who has no one else to care for her. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and. James 1 Looking After Widows and Orphans James 1:22, 27 NIV Do not merely listen to Word, and so deceive yourselves. One of their primary ministries was taking care of the widows and poor. 1 Timothy 5:3-4 - Honour widows that are widows indeed. James, the brother of Jesus, was the leader of the church of Jerusalem.
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