Bible Verses About Leaving Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for leaving parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 75,388 votes, led by Genesis 2:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Leaving Parents
Genesis 2:242,370 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:312,120 votes
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.
Matthew 19:51,940 votes
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?
Matthew 19:61,856 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
1 Corinthians 7:1-401,568 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Revelation 1:11,362 votes
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:
Matthew 19:4-61,257 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Proverbs 22:61,214 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:11,188 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Genesis 3:161,138 votes
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.
Luke 14:261,135 votes
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.
Exodus 20:121,129 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Matthew 19:3-91,074 votes
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?
Hebrews 13:41,046 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Matthew 19:1-301,038 votes
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan;
Colossians 3:201,019 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:101,004 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Luke 18:29965 votes
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,
Ephesians 5:33956 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians 6:4892 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 13:24882 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Colossians 3:21861 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Proverbs 1:8855 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 29:15855 votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Psalms 127:3-5854 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
What does the Bible say about leaving parents?
Readers most often cite Genesis 2:24 on the subject of leaving parents. Across 75,388 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:31, Matthew 19:5, Matthew 19:6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.