Bible Verses About Fatherlessness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for fatherlessness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 370 votes, led by James 1:27. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Fatherlessness
James 1:2725 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
1 Timothy 5:823 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Psalms 68:522 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 68:5-621 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Deuteronomy 10:1820 votes
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Ephesians 6:418 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Psalms 82:317 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms 27:1016 votes
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
Psalms 10:1815 votes
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms 10:1414 votes
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
John 14:1814 votes
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Psalms 103:1313 votes
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Jeremiah 49:1113 votes
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Proverbs 22:612 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Isaiah 1:2312 votes
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Deuteronomy 27:1911 votes
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 6:2711 votes
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Job 29:1211 votes
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Psalms 94:611 votes
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Psalms 146:911 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Joshua 1:910 votes
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua 24:1510 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:1410 votes
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Proverbs 13:2410 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Isaiah 1:1710 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
What does the Bible say about fatherlessness?
Readers most often cite James 1:27 on the subject of fatherlessness. Across 370 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:8, Psalms 68:5, Psalms 68:5-6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.