Single Parents

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

“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.

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. — read the full passage →

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

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

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.

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

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you.” — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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.

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

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

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

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — 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.”

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

for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

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

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.

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

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.”

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

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 →