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Job 31:18
(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

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Job 31:17
If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

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.

Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

Job 22:9
You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

Luke 14:13
But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:

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.

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Psalms 25:7
Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

Isaiah 58:10
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

Matthew 25:35
For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;

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Exodus 22:22
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

Exodus 22:23
If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

Exodus 22:24
And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all your produce in the third year, which is the year when this has to be done, give it to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and the child without a father, and the widow, so that they may have food in your towns and be full;

Deuteronomy 26:13
And say before the Lord your God, I have taken all the holy things out of my house and have given them to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and him who has no father, and the widow, as you have given me orders: I have kept in mind all your orders, in nothing have I gone against them:

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