Fatherlessness

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• James 1:27

  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.

• Psalms 68:5

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

• 1 Timothy 5:8

  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.

• Psalms 68:5–6

  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.

• Deuteronomy 10:18

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

• Ephesians 6:4

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

• Psalms 82:3

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

• Psalms 27:10

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

• Psalms 10:18

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

• Jeremiah 49:11

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

• Psalms 10:14

  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.

• John 14:18

  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

• Psalms 103:13

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

• Isaiah 1:23

  Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

• Proverbs 22:6

  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

• Deuteronomy 27:19

  Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

• Job 6:27

  Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

• Psalms 146:9

  The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

• Psalms 94:6

  They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

• Job 29:12

  Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Proverbs 13:24

  He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

• Joshua 1:9

  Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

• John 3:16

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

• Joshua 24:15

  And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

• Job 22:9

  Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.