Bible Verses about “leave mother and father”

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

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

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

“¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”

“[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”

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

“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”

“‹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?›”

“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”

“And he answered and said unto them, ‹Have ye not read, that he which made› [them] ‹at the beginning made them male and female,›”

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

“For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.”

“‹And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall 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 whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.›”

“¶ And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,”