39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

And every one that hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

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

And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or wife, or brethren, 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 Jehovah.

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 yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Jehovah will take me up.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than 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 should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the gospel's sake,

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have 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.

That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee:

Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie 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 unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.

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 forsake not the law of thy mother:

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned; and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Jehovah, and there abide for ever.

They shall 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.

And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord; but first suffer me to bid farewell to them that are at 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 for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.