39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be 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 father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

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

And everyone that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, 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 has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that has left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

House and riches are the inheritance from fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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 the LORD will take me up.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Take yourself 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; that you may be increased there, and not diminished.

But if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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

You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's, may he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.

And they two shall be one flesh: so then they are no more two, but one flesh.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.

And this woman's child died in the night; because she laid on it.

Who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, unto a land that I will show you:

Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.

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

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be slaves.

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 as a wife.

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

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

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, who are at home at my house.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father's house;

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

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.