fatherlessness
What does the Bible say about fatherlessness? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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27This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.
6the father of orphans and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place.
8But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.
6the father of orphans and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place. 7It is God who makes men dwell in a house under one custom. He leads out those who are strongly bound, and similarly, those who exasperate, who dwell in sepulchers.
18He accomplishes judgment for the orphan and the widow. He loves the sojourner, and he gives him food as well as clothing.
4And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.
3Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.
10For my father and my mother have left me behind, but the Lord has taken me up.
39so as to judge for the orphan and the humble, so that man may no longer presume to magnify himself upon the earth.
18I will not leave you orphans. I will return to you.
35You do see, for you examine hardship and sorrow, so that you may deliver them into your hands. The poor one has been abandoned to you. You will be a helper to the orphan.
13As a father is compassionate to his sons, so has the Lord been compassionate to those who fear him.
11Leave behind your orphans. I will make sure that they live. And your widows will hope in me.”