Bible Verses about “absent fathers”
The Bible contains 13 verses about absent fathers across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“‹Come unto me, all› [ye] ‹that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.›”
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
“¶ A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.”
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”
“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.”
“‹If any› [man] ‹come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.›”
“Jesus said unto him, ‹Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.›”
“And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
“The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.”
“¶ As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.”