Foster Care

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. — read the full passage →

`Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.'

He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

`And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; — read the full passage →

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

for this youth I prayed, and Jehovah doth give to me my petition which I asked of Him;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy.

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave <FI>it<Fi> , Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers, — read the full passage →

He hath pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he saveth, — read the full passage →

`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep; — read the full passage →

Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change. — read the full passage →

`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee in your land, thou dost not oppress him;

He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then <FI>it is<Fi> well--is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.

(But from my youth He grew up with me as <FI>with<Fi> a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

A wise servant ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance.

God--causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only--the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

And there goeth a man of the house of Levi, and he taketh the daughter of Levi, — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'

And the miser--his instruments <FI>are<Fi> evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly. — read the full passage →

`When a man is found stealing a person, of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him, and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

`And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.