39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

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

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

and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

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

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

Another one said, ‘I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come.’

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in regard to their own family and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

And He said to them, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
But the Lord will take me up.

But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are 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 is not worthy of Me.

Take wives and become the fathers of 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 do not decrease.

(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake,

Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

God says, “If a husband divorces his wife
And she goes from him
And belongs to another man,
Will he still return to her?
Will not that land be completely polluted?
But you are a harlot with many lovers;
Yet you turn to Me,” declares the Lord.

and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

This woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on it.

That leaves the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;

Now the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;

Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she looks good to me.”

A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

So he came back and told his father and mother, “I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.”

My son, observe the commandment of your father
And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “I will not go up until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord and stay there forever.”

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home.”

Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear:
Forget your people and your father’s house;

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,

A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.