25 Bible Verses About Fatherlessness (ESV)

27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

5   Father of the fatherless and protector of widows
    is God in his holy habitation.

5   Father of the fatherless and protector of widows
    is God in his holy habitation.
6   God settles the solitary in a home;
    he leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
    but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

18 He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

3   Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
    maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

10   For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
    but the LORD will take me in.

14   But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation,
    that you may take it into your hands;
  to you the helpless commits himself;
    you have been the helper of the fatherless.

18   to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
    so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

11   Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive;
    and let your widows trust in me.”

18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

9   The LORD watches over the sojourners;
    he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
    but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

6   Train up a child in the way he should go;
    even when he is old he will not depart from it.

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

13   As a father shows compassion to his children,
    so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.

23   Your princes are rebels
    and companions of thieves.
  Everyone loves a bribe
    and runs after gifts.
  They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
    and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

6   They kill the widow and the sojourner,
    and murder the fatherless;

17     learn to do good;
  seek justice,
    correct oppression;
  bring justice to the fatherless,
    plead the widow’s cause.

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

27   You would even cast lots over the fatherless,
    and bargain over your friend.

24   Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
    but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

12   because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
    and the fatherless who had none to help him.

20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

19 “‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’