39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

"That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

(Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.)

and said, "That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

That's why "a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,

In fact, everyone who has left his homes, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or fields because of my name will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple.

Still another said, "I recently got married, so I can't come.'

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.

Jesus told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, wife, brothers, parents, or children because of the kingdom of God

A house and self-sufficiency are a father's inheritance, but from the LORD comes an insightful wife.

Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.

Though my father and my mother abandoned me, the LORD gathers me up.

To married people I give this command (not really I, but the Lord): A wife must not leave her husband.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so they may have sons and daughters. Increase in numbers there, don't decrease.

But if she does leave him, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. Likewise, a husband must not abandon his wife.

Jesus said, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or fields because of me and the gospel

"Each of you is to fear his mother and father. "Observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

"When a man divorces his wife, she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, will the first husband return to her again? The land would be deeply polluted, would it not? Since you have committed fornication with many lovers, would you now return to me?" declares the LORD.

and the two will become one flesh.' So they're no longer two, but one flesh.

A good person leaves an inheritance to his grandchildren, but the wealth of the wicked is reserved for the righteous.

A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,

This woman's son died overnight because she laid on top of him.

someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God.

The LORD told Abram, "You are to leave your land, your relatives, and your father's house and go to the land that I'm going to show you.

His father and mother asked him, "Isn't there a woman suitable among the daughters of your relatives or among all of our people, since you're going to get your wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?"

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

"When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and has sexual relations with her, he must pay her bride price, and she is to become his wife.

Now there happened to be a certain woman who had been the wife of a member of the Guild of Prophets. She cried out to Elisha, "My husband who served you has died, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. But a creditor has come to take away my children into indentured servitude!"

Then he returned and told his father and mother, "In Timnah I saw a woman of Philistine origin." He ordered them, "Get her for me as a wife. Now!"

Keep your father's commands, my son, and never forsake your mother's rules,

"When a man is newly married, he must not be sent out to war or have a related duty placed on him. Let him stay home for one year and be happy with his wife whom he has married.

Hannah did not go up because she had told her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I'll take him to appear in the LORD's presence and remain there forever."

They will be divided father against son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to those at home."

Listen, daughter! Consider and pay attention. Forget your people and your father's house,

Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken back Moses' wife Zipporah after she had been sent away,

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.