39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold 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.

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

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing 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 inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated 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 in.

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband

For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

(but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and 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 lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

"If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return 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, but the sinner's wealth is laid up 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 satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him.

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

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes."

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 betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."

Then he came up and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife."

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

"When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the LORDand dwell there forever."

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

Yet another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home."

Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,

Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her home,

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.