Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Bible References

Preserveth

Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Deuteronomy 10:18
who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 16:11
and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow that are in thy midst in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Proverbs 15:25
Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Thou art our God; because in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.