Bible Verses about “dead beat dads”

“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.”

“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”

“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”

“Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”

“For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”

“He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”

“[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”

“He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.”

“But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”

“¶ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.”

“He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.”

“¶ Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.”

“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.”

“But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.”

“¶ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:”

“¶ But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.”

“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”

“But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.”

“He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.”

“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.”

“I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.”

“These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.”

“¶ And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.”

“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

“Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.”

“Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.]”

“If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.”

“¶ Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.”

“Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.”

“I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.”

“¶ I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.”

“I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.”

“And this is the promise that he hath promised us, [even] eternal life.”

“Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”

“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.”

“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

“Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

“For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.”

“But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”

“Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”

“The eye [that] mocketh at [his] father, and despiseth to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.”

“¶ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother.”