Bible Verses for Foster Parents
KJV scriptures for foster families — welcoming a child, loving through uncertainty, and the goodbye that may come.
Foster care asks you to love a child fully while holding them loosely. That is a hard, holy assignment, and Scripture has more to say about it than most people expect. These King James verses speak to God's heart for children without a settled home, to the courage of the placement call, and to the grief of a reunification you prayed for and still feel.
KJV scriptures for foster families — welcoming a child, loving through uncertainty, and the goodbye that may come.
"A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families." — Psalm 68:5-6 (KJV)
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A 7-Day Foster Care Reading Pack
For foster carers at any stage — first placement, hard season, or a goodbye.
10 pages · US Letter · one verse and devotion prompt per day, writing space, the rest of the verse collection, and a closing prayer. No signup.
A 7-Day Foster Care Reading Pack
For foster carers at any stage — first placement, hard season, or a goodbye.
How to use this pack
- One page a day, or one on the worst day of the week.
- Day six is for placements ending, which is most of them.
- Agencies and churches may reprint this pack for carer support groups.
- Day 1
Pure religion
Psalm 68:5-6A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families.Psalm 68:5-6 (KJV)
Prompt: To visit the fatherless in their affliction. What drew you into this, and what has it cost so far?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 2
A child's behaviour
James 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.James 1:27 (KJV)
Prompt: Behaviour is communication. What might this child be saying that they cannot put into words?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 3
Loving without guarantees
Matthew 18:5And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.Matthew 18:5 (KJV)
Prompt: How do you love fully knowing they may leave? Write your honest answer, not the training-course one.
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 4
Their birth family
Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.Isaiah 1:17 (KJV)
Prompt: How do you speak about their family in front of them, and what needs to change?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 5
Your own household
Deuteronomy 10:18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.Deuteronomy 10:18 (KJV)
Prompt: How are your other children, and your marriage, actually doing? Ask them today.
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 6
Goodbyes
1 Corinthians 13:7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.1 Corinthians 13:7 (KJV)
Prompt: If this placement ends, what do you want the child to take with them — a book, a photo, a sentence they remember?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 7
Endurance
Psalm 27:10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.Psalm 27:10 (KJV)
Prompt: Let us not be weary in well doing. What support do you need in place to still be doing this in two years?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
Closing prayer
Father to the fatherless, give us patience for behaviour we did not cause, love that does not calculate the cost, and grace for the goodbyes. Amen.
Psalm 68:5-6
God places children in families
"A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families."Read in context
James 1:27
Foster care as true religion
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction."Read in context
Matthew 18:5
Receiving a child is receiving Christ
"And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me."Read in context
Isaiah 1:17
Advocacy is part of the calling
"Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."Read in context
Deuteronomy 10:18
God provides through willing hands
"He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment."Read in context
1 Corinthians 13:7
The kind of love foster care requires
"Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."Read in context
Psalm 27:10
For the child's own story
"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up."Read in context
Galatians 6:9
For placements that are hard and long
"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."Read in context
How to Use These Verses
- •Psalm 68:6 is the verse most foster families come back to — write it where you will see it on a placement day.
- •1 Corinthians 13:7 is worth reading aloud the week a reunification is announced.
- •Pair Psalm 27:10 with a memory book you send with the child.
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