38 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.

and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh?

Because of this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife,

And every man who has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, because of my name, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And another said, I married a wife, and because of this I cannot come.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be devoted to their own house, and to give back recompense to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

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

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband, then otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves 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 give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

And having answered, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, there is no man who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, because of me, and because of the good-news,

Every man shall fear his mother, and his father. And ye shall keep my Sabbaths. I am LORD your God.

and the two will be in one flesh. So then they are no more two, but one flesh.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

If a man begets a hundred sons, 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 an untimely birth is better than he.

And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay upon it.

who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God

Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.

Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brothers, or among all my people, that thou go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her fo

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

And if a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lays with her, he shall surely 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, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo

And 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 to wife.

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.

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

But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, [Not] until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before LORD, and abide there forever.

A father will be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And also another said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those in my house.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.

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

A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in Lord.