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Bible Verses for Death of a Parent
Lost a parent? These WEB verses bring comfort to sons and daughters grieving the one who raised them.
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Jeremiah 16:7
“Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.”
— World English Bible
Lamentations 5:3
“We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.”
— World English Bible
Genesis 37:35
“And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.”
— World English Bible
Leviticus 20:19
“And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.”
— World English Bible
Leviticus 21:2
“But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,”
— World English Bible
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1 Chronicles 7:22
“And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.”
Psalms 27:10
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”
Proverbs 1:8
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
Proverbs 6:20
“My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
Proverbs 27:10
“Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.”
Ezekiel 22:7
“In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.”
Malachi 3:5
“And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his...”
Matthew 19:29
“And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting ...”
Genesis 2:24
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Genesis 20:12
“And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.”
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