18 Bible Verses about Leaving Parents For Spouse

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh.

And said, For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh?

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

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my names sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and inherit everlasting life.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, 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.

and to requite their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.

And he said to them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children,

Forgive me this wrong. Behold the third time I am ready to come to you: yet I will not be burdensom to you; for I seek not yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

The married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.

For the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified by the wife; and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified by the husband. Else were your children unclean; but now they are holy.

He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me, and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me;

But if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband.

Verily I say to you, there is none that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake and the gospel's,

And they twain shall be one flesh; so then they are no more twain but one flesh.

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 thee; but suffer me first to bid them farewell that are in my house.

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