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 our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.”
“Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.”
“She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.”
“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."”
“"The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'”
“Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."”
“Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.”
“Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.”
“Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,”
“"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”
“But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”
“for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;”
“Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."”
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.”
“For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.”
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
“I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;”
“even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.”
“He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.”
“"'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.”
“The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.”
“as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,”
“He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.”
“"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."”
“But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.”
“according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.”
“(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);”
“He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.”