18 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."

and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,

And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.

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

"Another said, "'I am just married. It is impossible for me to come.'

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.

"I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has left house or wife, or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of God's Kingdom,

See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.

But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;

For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is--holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people.

Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one 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 that a husband is not to send away his wife.

"In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has forsaken house or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,

and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but 'one.'

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

"Master," said yet another, "I will follow you; but allow me first to go and say good-bye to my friends at home."

A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.