18 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one.

and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them shall become one'? So they are no longer two but one.

Therefore a man must leave his father and mother, and he and his wife must become one,'

And anyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or land for my sake will receive many times as much, and share eternal life.

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Another said, 'I have married, and so I cannot come.'

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

And he said to them, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the Kingdom of God

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated.

No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,

If she does separate, she must remain single or else become reconciled to him. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

Jesus said, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news,

and so they are no longer two but one.

Father will be 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 her mother-in-law."

Yet another man said to him, "Master, I am going to follow you, but let me first say goodbye to my people at home."

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases so long as he is a Christian.