Bible Verses about “fatherlessness”

“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”

“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.”

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

“Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.”

“"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”

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

“God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.”

“He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.”

“to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.”

“But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.”

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