Bible Verses about “foster care”
The Bible contains 30 verses about foster care across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“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.”
“‹A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.›”
“Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”
“She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.”
“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”
“‹And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done› [it] ‹unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done› [it] ‹unto me.›”
“Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.”
“¶ But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”
“‹And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.›”
“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.”
“But when Jesus saw [it], he was much displeased, and said unto them, ‹Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.›”
“For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;”
“Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.”
“And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:”
“For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:”
“‹I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.›”
“‹I am the good shepherd, and know my› [sheep], ‹and am known of mine.›”
“‹As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.›”
“‹But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.›”
“And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.”
“‹The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.›”
“Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,”
“He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.”
“‹Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.›”
“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.”
“According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.”
“(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)”
“He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.”