Bible Verses about “fatherlessness”

“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”

“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“¶ ‹I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.›”

“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”

“Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.”

“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.”

“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.”

“God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land].”

“He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.”

“To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.”

“Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.”

“Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.”