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Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

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Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.

Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Luke 14:13
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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Psalms 25:7
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

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Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Isaiah 58:10
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

Matthew 25:35
for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.

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Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.

Deuteronomy 26:13
You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

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