Leave Mother and Father
4 passages
- Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Read it in context - Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Read it in context - Matthew 19:4–6
4Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Read it in context - Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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