Orphans and
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| Ephesians 1:3-6 | "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved." |
| James 1:27 | "Religion that our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this; to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." |
| Romans 8:15-16 | "For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, Abba! Father!" The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God." |
| Deuteronomy 24:19 | "He defends the cause of the fatherless, giving food and clothing." |
| Exodus 22:21-22 | "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or orphan." |
| Exodus 22:22-24 | "He hears the cries of the orphan." |
| Psalm 10:14 (NIV) | "But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless." |
| Psalm 68:5 | "He is a father to the fatherless." |
| Deuteronomy 14:29 | "He blesses those who provide for the orphan." |
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Those in need |
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| Matthew 25:35-36 | "For when I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." |
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