39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

"For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh."

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

and said, For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh?

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

And everyone who left 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 anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, 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 first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

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

Houses and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

And to the married I command (not I, but the Lord), a woman not to be separated from her husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; else your children would be 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 father sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may be multiplied there and not become few.

But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

And Jesus answered and said, Truly I say to 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 sake,

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.

They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah.

And the two of them shall be one flesh. So then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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

If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.

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

who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

And Jehovah said to Abram, Go out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house into a land that I will show you.

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

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

And if a man lures a virgin who is not promised, and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead. And you know that your servant feared Jehovah. And the lender has come to take my two children to himself for slaves.

And he came up and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And now get her for me for a wife.

My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake 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 duty. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken.

But Hannah did not go up. For she said to her husband, Until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him so that he may appear before Jehovah and stay there 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 first allow me to take leave of those in my house.

Listen, O daughter, and look; and bow down your ear; and forget 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 sleeps in death, she is at liberty to be remarried to whom she will, only in the Lord.