39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

"Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

But to the married I command -- not I, but the Lord -- that the wife not leave her husband

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

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

Take wives, and father 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 don't be diminished.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.

and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

Then his father and his mother said to him, "Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?" Samson said to his father, "Get her for me; for she pleases me well."

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife."

My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, "Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever."

They will be divided, 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."

Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house."

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.