What does the Bible say about single parents?
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The Bible shows God’s tender concern for single parents and their children, calling his people to protect, support, and honor families facing hardship while trusting him as their faithful Provider. Psalm 68:5 and Psalm 146:9 portray the Lord as Father to the fatherless and defender of the vulnerable, while Exodus 22:22-24 warns against exploiting them. Isaiah 54:5 assures God’s people that he is their Maker and husband, present in loneliness and need. Parents are called to raise children in God’s ways, as Proverbs 22:6 teaches, relying not on self alone but on the Lord’s direction in Proverbs 3:5-6. Children are God’s gracious gift, and God’s covenant care does not fail.
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- Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.
- Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.
- Exodus 22:22-24
[22] "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. [23] If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; [24] and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
- Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor,
- Proverbs 3:5-6
[5] Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, And don't lean on your own understanding. [6] In all your ways acknowledge him, And he will direct your paths.
- Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
- Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
- Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
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