39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.

They will be at war, the father against his son, and the son against his father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.

And another man said, I will come with you, Lord, but first let me say a last good-day to those who are at my house.

O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.