What does the Bible say about leave mother and father?
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The Bible teaches that marriage ordinarily forms a new primary household: a man leaves his father and mother, is joined to his wife, and the two become one flesh, while continuing to honor their parents. Genesis 2:24 and Jesus' teaching in Matthew 19:4-6 ground this union in God's creation design and forbid treating it lightly. Leaving does not mean abandoning needy parents or rejecting the fifth commandment, but establishing faithful covenant loyalty to one's spouse. Matthew 19:29 also reminds believers that devotion to Christ exceeds even family ties when obedience requires costly choices. Parents are to be honored, and homes are to nurture godly wisdom, reverence, and faithful family life.
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- Matthew 19:29 10 votes
Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
- Genesis 2:24 10 votes
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Matthew 19:4-6 9 votes
[4] He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, [5] and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?' [6] So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."
- Luke 14:25-27 5 votes
[25] Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, [26] "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple. [27] Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.
- Exodus 20:12 5 votes
"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Proverbs 1:8-9 2 votes
[8] My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching: [9] For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.
- Psalms 127:3 2 votes
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
- Matthew 19:5 2 votes
and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'
- Titus 2:3-5 2 votes
[3] and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; [4] that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, [5] to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
- Genesis 2:18 2 votes
Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
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