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What Does the Bible Say About Fatherlessness?

Here are 13 Bible verses about fatherlessness, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1James 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.

    BSBPure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

  2. #2Psalms 68:5

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

    BSBA father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

  3. #31 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.

    BSBIf anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

  4. #4Psalms 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.

    BSBA father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation. God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

  5. #5Deuteronomy 10:18

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

    BSBHe executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

  6. #6Ephesians 6:4

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

    BSBFathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  7. #7Psalms 82:3

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

    BSBDefend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

  8. #8Psalms 27:10

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

    BSBThough my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.

  9. #9Psalms 10:18

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

    BSBto vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

  10. #10Jeremiah 49:11

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

    BSBAbandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

  11. #11Psalms 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.

    BSBBut You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  12. #12John 14:18

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

    BSBI will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

  13. #13Psalms 103:13

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

    BSBAs a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

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