absent fathers
Psalm Chapter 27:10
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Psalm Chapter 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm Chapter 146:9
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Proverbs Chapter 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.
Proverbs Chapter 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs Chapter 27:8
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Zechariah Chapter 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.
Malachi Chapter 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.
Matthew Chapter 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Luke Chapter 9:60
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Luke Chapter 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.
Ephesians Chapter 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
1 Timothy Chapter 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.
James Chapter 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.