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What Does the Bible Say About Fathers Who Leave Their Children?

Here are 6 Bible verses about fathers who leave their children, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #11 Timothy 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.

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

  2. #2Psalms 106:37

    Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

    BSBThey sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

  3. #3Psalms 27:10

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

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

  4. #4Matthew 10:36

    And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

    BSBA man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

  5. #5Psalms 139:13-16

    For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

    BSBFor You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

  6. #6Psalms 106:27

    To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

    BSBto disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

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