Bible Verses About Absent Fathers
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for absent fathers, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,196 votes, led by 1 Timothy 5:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Absent Fathers
1 Timothy 5:8200 votes
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.
Psalms 68:5133 votes
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Ephesians 6:483 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 27:877 votes
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Psalms 27:1069 votes
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
Luke 9:6047 votes
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Luke 14:2646 votes
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.
Psalms 146:938 votes
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Malachi 4:637 votes
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.
Proverbs 22:635 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
James 1:2733 votes
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.
Proverbs 13:2231 votes
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Matthew 11:2829 votes
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Zechariah 11:1725 votes
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.
Exodus 22:22-2422 votes
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Proverbs 23:2422 votes
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Psalms 103:1320 votes
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Deuteronomy 24:1619 votes
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Hosea 14:319 votes
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Colossians 3:2119 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
James 2:1918 votes
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Psalms 127:3-517 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Luke 14:28-3017 votes
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Genesis 18:1916 votes
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Isaiah 30:2115 votes
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
What does the Bible say about absent fathers?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:8 on the subject of absent fathers. Across 1,196 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 68:5, Ephesians 6:4, Proverbs 27:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.