What Does the Bible Say About Custody?

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

John 14:1-16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Philippians 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

1 John 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Isaiah 9:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone. You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil. For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian. For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire. ...

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 5:31-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Isaiah 49:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—

Isaiah 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.

1 Corinthians 16:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come. And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem. If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me. I will visit you after passing through Macedonia, for I intend to pass through Macedonia, ...

1 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.

Acts 8:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ...

Isaiah 49:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.

Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them. When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased! The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, ...

Job 31:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

27 Bible Verses about Custody

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

John 14:1-16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Philippians 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 9:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:31-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 49:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 16:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 8:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 49:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Job 31:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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27 Bible Verses about Custody

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:1-16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

John 14:1-16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Philippians 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 9:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:31-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 49:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 16:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 8:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 49:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Job 31:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote