Single Mothers

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

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

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

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

“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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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.”

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.

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 →

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 →

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

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?

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 →

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

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?

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. — read the full passage →

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

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

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.

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

“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.

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

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

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.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

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.”

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

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.

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

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

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

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

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