Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Psalm 72:12
For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.
Proverbs 21:13
He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
Exodus 22:22-24
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
Deuteronomy 10:18
Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.
Nehemiah 5:2-13
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
Job 22:5-9
Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.
Job 24:4
The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
Job 31:17
If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Job 31:21
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
Psalm 68:5
A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
Proverbs 24:11-12
Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.
Jeremiah 22:16
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.