Bible Verses About Friendship for Becoming a Foster Parent

"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."

"A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."

"Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel."

"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."

"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed."

"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners."

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction."

"A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families."

"Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."

"And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me."

"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."