Verses

Mark 9:37 

³⁷"Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."

John 14:18 

¹⁸I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

Isaiah 54:2 
 ² "Enlarge the place of your tent,
       stretch your tent curtains wide,
       do not hold back;
       lengthen your cords,
       strengthen your stakes.

Psalm 68:5-6 

 ⁵ A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
       is God in his holy dwelling.
 ⁶ God sets the lonely in families, ^[a]
       he leads forth the prisoners with singing;
       but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

Hosea 14:3 

 ³   We will never again say 'Our gods'
       to what our own hands have made,
       for in you the fatherless find compassion."

James 1:27 

²⁷Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Matthew 18:5 

 ⁵"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.

Psalm 102:18 

 ¹⁸ Let this be written for a future generation,
       that a people not yet created may praise the LORD :

Psalm 139:13-14 

 ¹³ For you created my inmost being;
       you knit me together in my mother's womb.
 ¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
       your works are wonderful,
       I know that full well.

Jeremiah 31:3 

 ³ The LORD appeared to us in the past, ^[a] saying:
       "I have loved you with an everlasting love;
       I have drawn you with loving-kindness.

Isaiah 60:4-5 

 ⁴ "Lift up your eyes and look about you:
       All assemble and come to you;
       your sons come from afar,
       and your daughters are carried on the arm.
 ⁵ Then you will look and be radiant,
       your heart will throb and swell with joy;
       the wealth on the seas will be brought to you,
       to you the riches of the nations will come.

Jeremiah 1:5

 ⁵ "Before I formed you in the womb I knew ^[a] you,
       before you were born I set you apart;
       I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

Romans 8:15 

¹⁵For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.^[a] And by him we cry, "Abba,^[b] Father."

Proverbs 24:12 

 ¹² If you say, "But we knew nothing about this,"
       does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
       Does not he who guards your life know it?
       Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?

Psalm 10:14 

 ¹⁴ But you, O God, do see trouble and grief;
       you consider it to take it in hand.
       The victim commits himself to you;
       you are the helper of the fatherless.

Romans 12:2 

²Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Ephesians 1:4-6 

⁴For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love ⁵he^[a] predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— ⁶to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

Isaiah 42:18-20 

 ¹⁸ "Hear, you deaf;
       look, you blind, and see!

 ¹⁹ Who is blind but my servant,
       and deaf like the messenger I send?
       Who is blind like the one committed to me,
       blind like the servant of the LORD ?
 ²⁰ You have seen many things, but have paid no attention;
       your ears are open, but you hear nothing."

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and
certain of what we do not see.