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Bible Verses About absent fathers

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What does the Bible say about absent fathers? Browse 13 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: 1 Timothy 5:8
King James (KJV)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. house: or, kindred

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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. house: or, kindred
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. take: Heb. gather me
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
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.
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.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Train: or, Catechise in: Heb. in his way
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
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.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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