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What does the Bible say about absent fathers?

15 verses about absent fathers, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about absent fathers

1 Timothy 5:8 — 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. 12 votes
Psalms 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 8 votes
Proverbs 27:8 — As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. 5 votes
Ephesians 6:4 — And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 5 votes
Psalms 27:10 — When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. 4 votes
Malachi 4:6 — 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. 3 votes
Luke 9:60 — Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. 3 votes
Luke 14:26 — 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. 3 votes
Exodus 22:22 — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 2 votes
Psalms 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 2 votes
Proverbs 13:22 — A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. 2 votes
Proverbs 22:6 — Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 2 votes
Zechariah 11:17 — Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. 2 votes
Matthew 11:28 — Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 2 votes
James 1:27 — 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. 2 votes

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Psalms (3), Proverbs (3), Luke (2), Exodus (1), Zechariah (1), Malachi (1), Matthew (1), Ephesians (1), 1 Timothy (1), James (1)

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