Single Moms

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

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

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

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

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

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” — read the full passage →

Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.”

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” — read the full passage →

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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.”

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her: — read the full passage →

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue. — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

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

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh. — read the full passage →

She said to her, “All that you say I will do.” — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. — read the full passage →

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

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

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”