

I encourage you to explore and do more research on your own. The following are just a few of the verses on what the Bible says about orphans.

In many cases, children become orphans or, as we say, “part of the system” even though they may have one or more parent very much alive.įirst, let’s take a look at what God has to say about orphans and what He expects of those who say they follow and love Him when it comes to caring for the fatherless and abandoned. We often forget that the orphan crisis is worldwide, extending from countries where children are left parentless due to war, disease, and genocide, to our own cities and counties where children are removed from their homes due to drug use, abuse, neglect, or incarceration of the parent(s).
