Job 31:18
31:18 but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father,
and from my mother’s womb
I guided the widow!
Esther 2:7
2:7 Now he was acting as the guardian
of Hadassah
(that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, for neither her father nor her mother was alive.
This young woman was very attractive and had a beautiful figure.
When her father and mother died, Mordecai had raised her
as if she were his own daughter.
Psalms 68:5
68:5 He is a father to the fatherless
and an advocate for widows.
God rules from his holy palace.
Ephesians 5:1
Live in Love
5:1 Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children
James 1:27
1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before
God the Father
is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.