Bible Verses about “dead beat dads”

“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.”

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

“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”

“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”

“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”

“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”

“One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.”

“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.”

“And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.”

“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.”

“As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.”

“This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.”

“he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.”

“Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.”

“And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.”

“But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”

“My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.”

“You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.”

“They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.”

“But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:”

“He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.”

“Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.”

“I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.”

“These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.”

“Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.”

“Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.”

“Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.”

“Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.”

“If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.”

“Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.”

“Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.”

“I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.”

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

“I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.”

“This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.”

“Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.”

“Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.”

“For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.”

“If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.”

“It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.”

“For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.”

“But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”

“Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.”

“"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.”

“The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.”