Bible Verses About Family Separation

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;

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

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.

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

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

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.

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.

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 said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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

Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

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,

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

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.

Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

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

Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

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.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.

All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

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.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

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

And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.

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