Bible Verses about “mother in laws”
The Bible contains 21 verses about mother in laws across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
“¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“¶ ‹Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.›”
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
“That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”
“‹And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except› [it be] ‹for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.›”
“¶ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.”
“And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, [or] 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: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if ought] but death part thee and me.”
“‹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;›”
“And withal they learn [to be] idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.”
“‹And a man's foes› [shall be] ‹they of his own household.›”
“¶ [A Psalm] of David. The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”
“When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.”
“‹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.›”
“‹Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.›”
“¶ And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.”
“And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.”