Leaving Parents

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

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?’

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

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

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

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

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God’s sake,

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”

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

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.