What Does the Bible Say About Forsake Their Children?

Psalm 27:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.

Matthew 19:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Isaiah 49:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

11 Bible Verses about Forsake Their Children

Psalm 27:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 19:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 49:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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Psalm 27:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 19:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 49:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes