Throughout the pages of Scripture, God's heart for single mothers shines brilliantly through stories of courage, provision, and divine favor. From Hagar's miraculous encounter with the Angel of the Lord to the widow of Zarephath's supernatural supply, these women remind us that God sees every struggle and meets every need with His unfailing love. Their stories continue to speak hope into the lives of single mothers today, revealing that in God's kingdom, no woman parents alone.
Bible Verses for Single Moms
Find strength, comfort, and guidance in these powerful scriptures:
Psalm 68:5
"A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling."
Isaiah 1:17
"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."
Deuteronomy 10:18
"He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing."
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James 1:27
"Religion 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."
Psalm 146:9
"The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked."
1 Timothy 5:3
"Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need."
Jeremiah 49:11
"Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me."
Psalm 27:10
"Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me."
Deuteronomy 27:19
"Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen!'"
Psalm 82:3
"Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed."
Isaiah 54:5
"For your Maker is your husband - the Lord Almighty is his name - the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth."
Exodus 22:22-24
"Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless."
Proverbs 31:28
"Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her."
1 Kings 17:15-16
"She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah."
Malachi 3:5
"So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me, says the Lord Almighty."
Philippians 4:19
"And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus."
2 Timothy 1:5
"I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also."
Isaiah 40:11
"He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young."
Deuteronomy 14:29
"So that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands."
Luke 7:12-15
"As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out - the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, 'Don't cry.' Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, 'Young man, I say to you, get up!' The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother."
Psalm 113:9
"He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord."
Job 29:13
"The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow's heart sing."
Zechariah 7:10
"Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other."
Psalm 103:13
"As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him."
1 Timothy 5:16
"If any woman who is a believer has widows in her care, she should continue to help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need."
Isaiah 49:15
"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!"
Ruth 1:16
"But Ruth replied, 'Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.'"
Hosea 14:3
"Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion."
Psalm 9:18
"But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish."
Matthew 6:26
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
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