absent fathers

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

⁶the father of orphans and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place.

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

⁸Just like a bird migrating from her nest, so also is a man who abandons his place.

¹⁰For my father and my mother have left me behind, but the Lord has taken me up.

⁶⁰And Jesus said to him: “Let the dead bury their dead. But you go and announce the kingdom of God.”

²⁶“If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple.

⁶And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with anathema.

⁹The Lord watches over new arrivals. He will support the orphan and the widow. And he will destroy the ways of sinners.

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

²²The good leave behind heirs: children and grandchildren. And the substance of the sinner is preserved for the just.

²⁷This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.

²⁸Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.

²²You shall not harm a widow or an orphan. ²³If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry. ²⁴And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.

¹⁷O shepherd and idol, abandoning the flock, with a sword upon his arm and over his right eye: his arm will be withered by drought, and his right eye will be obscured by darkness.