Bible Verses About Mother-in-Law

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

“‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.

‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me.”

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.

He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them.