Bible Verses About Family Isolation

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

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.

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:

Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.