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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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Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Romans 13:10
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Colossians 2:18
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

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Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

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.

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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Job 11:15
Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,

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Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

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 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

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 18:23
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

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Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Acts 15:29
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

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Psalms 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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John 14:18
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

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Acts 9:39
Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and other garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Acts 9:41
He gave her his hand and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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Romans 15:1
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

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1 Timothy 6:19
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

Hebrews 13:16
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

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James 3:9
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

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James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

James 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

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1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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