Absent Fathers

But if anyone doesn’t 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 the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. — read the full passage →

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

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.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, — read the full passage →

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. — read the full passage →

Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither be afraid of them. — read the full passage →

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; — read the full passage →

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge; — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. — read the full passage →

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. — read the full passage →

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →

and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.