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Bible Verses about “children leaving home

Found 37 verses (ordered by relevance) about “children leaving home” in the WEB version of the Bible

Ephesians 6:4
1043 votes

You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:6
1017 votes

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

Psalms 127:3
1003 votes

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Genesis 2:24
810 votes

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Psalms 127:4
559 votes

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

Psalms 127:5
556 votes

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.

Ephesians 5:31
469 votes

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

Joshua 1:9
388 votes

Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."

Colossians 3:20
284 votes

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Proverbs 13:24
277 votes

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Proverbs 1:8
192 votes

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

2 Timothy 3:15
192 votes

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Luke 15:22
168 votes

"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

2 Timothy 3:14
160 votes

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

Luke 15:24
149 votes

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.

Luke 15:25
147 votes

"Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 15:20
141 votes

"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Luke 15:21
139 votes

The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

Luke 15:23
139 votes

Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

Luke 15:17
136 votes

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

Proverbs 22:15
134 votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Luke 15:18
125 votes

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

Luke 15:19
125 votes

I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'

Proverbs 1:9
124 votes

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

Luke 15:16
117 votes

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

Luke 15:13
115 votes

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

Luke 15:32
112 votes

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"

Luke 15:15
111 votes

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Luke 15:11
110 votes

He said, "A certain man had two sons.

Luke 15:12
109 votes

The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.

Luke 15:14
109 votes

When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

Luke 15:31
106 votes

"He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

Luke 15:29
104 votes

But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:26
102 votes

He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

Luke 15:27
102 votes

He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'

Luke 15:28
102 votes

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

Luke 15:30
102 votes

But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'