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Bible Verses About Leaving Parents

214 verses from Scripture about leaving parents.

214 Verses

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

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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.

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

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Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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1 Corinthians 7:11 Corinthians

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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Revelation 1:1Revelation

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Ephesians 6:1Ephesians

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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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.

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Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;

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Colossians 3:20Colossians

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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1 Corinthians 7:101 Corinthians

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

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

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Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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Ephesians 6:4Ephesians

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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Colossians 3:21Colossians

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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Proverbs 1:8Proverbs

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

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Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

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

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1 Corinthians 6:161 Corinthians

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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1 Timothy 5:81 Timothy

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

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