Absentee Fathers
7 passages
- 1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Read it in context - Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.
Read it in context - Proverbs 27:8
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.
Read it in context - Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
Read it in context - Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Read it in context - Luke 9:60
But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
Read it in context - Psalm 27:10
Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
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