39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall join to his wife;

And every one that has forsaken houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.

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

House and riches are the inheritance from fathers, but the prudent wife is from the LORD.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not your things, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For my father and my mother have left me, and the LORD has taken me up.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife separate from her husband;

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

take wives and beget sons and daughters; give wives unto your sons and give husbands unto your daughters, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be multiplied there and not diminished.

and if she separates, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband, and let not the husband put away his wife.

And answering him, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no one that has left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospel's

Ye shall fear, every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths. I AM your God.

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, shall he return unto her again? Is she not a land that is now completely polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, said the LORD.

and they that were two shall be made one flesh, so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

If a man begets a hundred sons and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his soul is not filled with good and also that he have no burial; I say that an aborted birth is better than he.

And this woman's child died in the night because she lay on top of him.

who forsakes the prince of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

But the LORD had said unto Abram, Depart out of thy country and from thy nature and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee;

Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren or among all my people that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.

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

If a man should entice a virgin that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall surely endow her and take her to be his wife.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried unto Elisha, saying, Thy slave, my husband, is dead; and thou knowest that thy slave feared the LORD; and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his slaves.

And he came up and told his father and his mother, saying, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore get her for me to wife.

My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother:

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business; but he shall be free at home one year and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken.

But Hannah did not go up, for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him that he may be presented before the LORD and abide there for ever.

The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother, the mother-in-law against her daughter- in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee, but let me first go bid farewell those who are at home at my house.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

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

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is free and may be married to whom she will, if it is in the Lord.