39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,

And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.

If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

And another said, I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

And he said to them, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up.

But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

Take wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and be not diminished.

(but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.

Jesus answering said, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,

Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.

and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous man.

If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

And this woman's child died in the night; because she had lain upon it.

who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;

And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.

But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your kinsmen, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me; for she pleases me well."

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall certainly endow her, to be his wife.

And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen.

Then he came up, and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife."

My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.

But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, I will wait until the child is weaned; then will I bring him, that he may appear before Jehovah, and there abide for ever.

father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first allow me to bid adieu to those at my house.

Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:

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

A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.