Bible Verses About Mother-in-Law

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her.

And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her god: return thou after thy sister-in-law.

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God;

where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.

For I came 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:

Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever; and straightway they tell him of her:

and he came and took her by the hand, and raised her up; and the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.