Bible Verses About Absentee Fathers

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

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

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.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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.