The best Bible verses for foster parents include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for foster parents, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover."Luke 2:41
"After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it."Luke 2:43
"When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”"Luke 2:48
"“I tell you the truth,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God"Luke 18:29
"You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death."Luke 21:16
"“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death."Mark 13:12
"“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death."Matthew 10:21
"Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children."Proverbs 17:6
"slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;"Romans 1:30
"But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God."1 Timothy 5:4
"Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children."2 Corinthians 12:14
"Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,"Deuteronomy 22:17
"And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother, to whom he was born, will say to him, ‘You must die, because you have told lies in the Lord’s name.’ When he prophesies, his own parents will stab him."Zechariah 13:3
Scripture returns to foster parents often enough that no single verse covers it. The 15 passages below come from across the Old and New Testaments, and they do not all say the same thing — read together they give a fuller picture than any one of them does alone.
Each links to a study page with the full passage, its context, and the text in six translations, so a verse that catches your attention can be followed properly rather than left as a fragment.
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The most-cited Bible verses for foster parents are Luke 2:41, Luke 2:43, Luke 2:48. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to foster parents across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for foster parents, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.