Absentee Fathers

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.

“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.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.