39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.

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

For this will a man leave his father and mother, and be attached to his wife;

And every one who lets go houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.

If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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

And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, That there is none who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for sake of the kingdom of God,

A house and wealth the inheritance of fathers: and an understanding wife from Jehovah.

Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children.

For my father and my mother forsook me, and Jehovah will gather me.

And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:

For the unbelieving husband was consecrated in the wife, and the unbelieving wife was consecrated in the husband: for then are our children unclean; and now are they holy.

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

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and ye shall give your daughters to husbands, and they shall bring forth sons and daughters: and ye be increased there, and ye shall not be diminished.

And if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband: and the husband not to send away the wife.

And Jesus having answered, said, Truly I say to you, There is none who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for sake of me, and the good news,

Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.

Saying, If a man shall send away his wife, and she went from him and she was to another man, shall he yet turn back to her? Being defiled, shall not that land be defiled? and thou committedst fornication with many shepherds; and turn back to me, says Jehovah.

And they two shall be in one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

The good shall cause his sons' sons to inherit: and the wealth of him sinning was treasured up for the just.

If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.

And the son of this woman will die in the night when she lay upon him.

Forsaking the friend of her youth, and forgetting the covenant of her God.

And Jehovah will say to Abram, Go for thyself from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land which I will shew thee.

And his father will say to him, and his mother, Is there not among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, a woman, that thou goest to take a woman from uncircumcised Philisteim? And Samson will say to his father, Take her to me, for she is straight in mine eyes.

A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.

If a man shall seduce a virgin who was not betrothed, and lying with her, endowing, he shall endow her to him for a wife.

And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

And he will go up and announce to his father and his mother, and will say, I saw a woman in Timnath from the daughters of Philisteim: and now take her to me for a wife.

My son, watch the commands of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the laws of thy mother:

When a man shall take a new wife, he shall not go out in the war, and nothing shall pass upon him for any word: he shall be free to his house one year, and gladden his wife whom he took.

And Hannah went not up; for she said to her husband, Till the boy shall be weaned, and I brought him, and he saw the face of Jehovah, and he shall sit there even to forever.

Father shall be divided against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And another said, I will follow thee, Lord; and first permit me to take leave of those in my house.

Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house;

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, will take Zipporah, Moses' wife, after her sending forth,

The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.