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
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 16:11
And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.
Proverbs 15:25
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the boundary of the widow.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your 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, you are our gods: for in you the fatherless finds mercy.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.