18 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

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

"For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall be one flesh?

"For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh;

"And every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my sake, shall many times as much, and fall heir to eternal life.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

"'I have taken a wife,' said the another, 'and for that reason I am unable to come.'

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

And he said to them, "In Solemn truth I tell you that there is no one who, for the sake of the kingdom of God, has left houses, or wife, or brother, or parents, or children,

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his believing wife; and the unbelieving wife, through union with her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but now they are consecrated to God.

"He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

(or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife.

"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that there is no man who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's,

so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

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

And another man also said to him. "I will follow you, Lord; but first permit me to bid farewell to those who are in my house."

A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.