Foster Care

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. — read the full passage →

“Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”

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,

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. — read the full passage →

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.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

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 this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

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 man slayers, — read the full passage →

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. — read the full passage →

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. — read the full passage →

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. — read the full passage →

“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother’s womb);

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. — read the full passage →

If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.

“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.