39 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and will stick (adhere) (cleave) (be joined) to his wife. The two will become one flesh.

This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two shall become one flesh.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife.

Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.

You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.

Another explained: 'I am newly married and I cannot come.'

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

Jesus said: Truly I tell you, no man has left house, or wife, or brother, or parents, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

Real estate and riches are the inheritance of fathers. A prudent (wise) (sensible) wife is from Jehovah.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Even if my father and mother abandon (forsake) me, Jehovah will take care of me.

To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband.

For the wife sanctifies the unbelieving husband, and the husband sanctifies the unbelieving wife. Otherwise your children would be unclean. But now they are holy.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Get married and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and let your daughters get married so they can have sons and daughters. Grow in number there and do not decrease.

If she leaves, let her remain unmarried or become reconciled to her husband. A husband should not divorce his wife.

Jesus said: Truly I tell you, a man that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the sake of the good news,

Respect your mother and father. Observe my days of worship. I am Jehovah your God!

It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.

The two shall become one flesh. They are no longer two, but one flesh.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. The wealth of the sinner is preserved for the righteous.

A man can have a hundred children and live many years. If he does not enjoy prosperity and have a decent burial, a stillborn child is better off then he.

One night she accidentally rolled over on her baby and smothered it.

She is unfaithful to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows to God.

Jehovah said to Abram: Leave your country, your people, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.

His father and mother asked him: Why do you go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can you not find someone in our own family or among all our people? Samson told his father: I like her! She is the one I want. Get her for me.

A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to anyone and has sexual intercourse with her, he must pay the bride price and marry her.

The widow of a member of a group of prophets said to Elisha: My husband has died! As you know, he was a man who respected God. A man to whom he owed money came to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.

He went home and told his father and mother: A Philistine woman at Timnah caught my attention. Get her for me. I want to marry her.

My son, obey your father's command, and do not abandon the law of your mother:

A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to the wife he has married.

This time Hannah did not go. She told her husband: As soon as the child is weaned, I will take him to the Temple of Jehovah, where he will stay all his life.

They will 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.

Another said: I will follow you Lord, but first let me go say good by to my relatives.

Listen, O daughter, pay attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house.

Moses sent his wife Zipporah and her two sons to stay with Jethro. Jethro welcomed them.

The wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord.