8 Bible Verses about Absent Fathers

Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].

If anyone fails to provide for his own, and especially for those of his own family, he has denied the faith [by disregarding its precepts] and is worse than an unbeliever [who fulfills his obligation in these matters].

A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

Like a bird that wanders from her nest [with its comfort and safety],
So is a man who wanders from his home.

Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.

He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) by giving him food and clothing.

The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow;
But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.

“I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, bereaved, and helpless]; I will come [back] to you.