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 31:18
(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 31:16
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
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);
Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Job 31:20
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
Job 31:22
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Job 29:11
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
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.
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.
Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Job 24:21
He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
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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 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
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;
Isaiah 58:11
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
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.
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
Isaiah 32:8
But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.
Matthew 25:40
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Mark 14:7
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
Hebrews 13:2
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
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Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
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.
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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.
Deuteronomy 14:29
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20
When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21
When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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Job 31:13
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,
Job 31:14
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?
Job 31:15
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
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Luke 14:12
He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
Luke 14:13
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
Luke 14:14
and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
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