God's Heart for Children Without Parents - What Does the Bible Say?
Take the verses below one at a time - read each one, write it, sing it. Pray it by asking God the Holy Spirit to give you understanding, to help you know what it means, but also to thank Him for His heart of love for orphans..Talk about each verse with friends and with teens and adults you know who love the Word of God.
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, Is God in His holy habitation.
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
Psalm 146:9
The LORD watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your orphans; I will protect their lives. Your widows too can trust in me. (NIV)
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness... Against those who exploit... widows and orphans, ...Because they do not fear Me," Says the LORD of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.