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 anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction 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 to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.”
“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.”
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.”
“A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
“"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.”
“But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."”
“He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."”
“Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.”
“As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.”