Bible verses about Empty Nest
Verses for the season when children leave home, about change, trust and new purpose.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:7Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
Psalms 71:9Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
Psalms 71:18Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.
Proverbs 17:6Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
Isaiah 46:4“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
Isaiah 49:15For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Matthew 19:29To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:1A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
John 16:21So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
John 16:22Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Philippians 3:13I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:14The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:24I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.
2 Timothy 1:5Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13:8