Bible verses about Foster Care
Verses about caring for children who need a home and defending those who are vulnerable.
You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
Exodus 22:22He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:18Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Deuteronomy 24:17But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 10:14A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
Psalms 68:5Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Psalms 82:3The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
Psalms 146:9Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
Proverbs 31:8Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
Isaiah 1:17This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 22:3For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
Matthew 25:35I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’
Matthew 25:36And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
Matthew 25:40Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
1 John 3:17and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.
1 Timothy 5:10