Deuteronomy 10:18
 Deuteronomy 10:18 
New International Version (©2011)
He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He ensures that orphans and widows receive justice. He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He executes justice for the orphan and the widows, loves the foreigner, and gives them food and clothing."

NET Bible (©2006)
who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He makes sure orphans and widows receive justice. He loves foreigners and gives them food and clothes.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.

American King James Version
He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

American Standard Version
He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

Darby Bible Translation
who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.

English Revised Version
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Webster's Bible Translation
He executeth the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

World English Bible
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

Young's Literal Translation
He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:12-22 We are here taught our duty to God in our principles and our practices. We must fear the Lord our God. We must love him, and delight in communion with him. We must walk in the ways in which he has appointed us to walk. We must serve him with all our heart and soul. What we do in his service we must do cheerfully, and with good will. We must keep his commandments. There is true honour and pleasure in obedience. We must give honour to God; and to him we must cleave, as one we love and delight in, trust in, and from whom we have great expectations. We are here taught our duty to our neighbour. God's common gifts to mankind oblige us to honour all men. And those who have themselves been in distress, and have found mercy with God, should be ready to show kindness to those who are in the like distress. We are here taught our duty to ourselves. Circumcise your hearts. Cast away all corrupt affections and inclinations, which hinder you from fearing and loving God. By nature we do not love God. This is original sin, the source whence our wickedness proceeds; and the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be; so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God, Ro 8:5-9. Let us, without delay or reserve, come and cleave to our reconciled God in Jesus Christ, that we may love, serve, and obey him acceptably, and be daily changed into his image, from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord. Consider the greatness and glory of God; and his goodness and grace; these persuade us to our duty. Blessed Spirit! Oh for thy purifying, persevering, and renewing influences, that being called out of the state of strangers, such as our fathers were, we may be found among the number of the children of God, and that our lot may be among the saints.


Pulpit Commentary

Verses 18, 19. - As the impartial and incorruptible Judge, God executes the judgment of the fatherless and widow, vindicates the right of the defenseless (Psalm 68:6; Psalm 146:9); and as the God of the whole earth, he loveth the stranger, helpless, and it may be oppressed, and giveth him food and raiment. Following him, Israel, as his people, were to be benevolent to the stranger, inasmuch as they themselves had been strangers in Egypt, and knew by experience what it was to be a stranger (cf. Exodus 22:20; Leviticus 19:33, 34). They were to love the stranger as God loves him, by relieving his necessities (cf. James 2:15, 16).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow,.... Who have none to help them, and whose patron and defender he is, and will do them justice himself, and take care that it is done them by others, or avenge their injuries, for he is a Father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widow, in his holy habitation; Psalm 68:5.

and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment; one that is in a foreign country, at a distance from his native land, and destitute of friends; such God in his providence takes care of, and expresses his love and kindness to, by giving them the necessaries of life, food, and raiment.


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A Call to Obedience
17For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regards not persons, nor takes reward: 18He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. …

Exodus 22:22 "Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.
Exodus 22:23 If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.
Numbers 10:32 If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us."
Deuteronomy 27:19 "Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
2 Chronicles 19:7 Now let the fear of the LORD be on you. Judge carefully, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery."
Psalm 68:5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Psalm 146:9 The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.