Bible verses about "in-laws" | MKJV

²⁴ Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh. ²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife; and they were not ashamed.

¹⁸ And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

¹ And it happened in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. ² And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. And they came to the fields of Moab and stayed there. ³ And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died. And she was left, and her two sons. ⁴ And they took wives for themselves from the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years. ⁵ And Mahlon and Chilion also died, both of them. And the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. ⁶ Then she arose with her daughters-in-law so that she might return from the fields of Moab. For she had heard in the fields of Moab how Jehovah had visited His people in giving them bread. ⁷ And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. ⁸ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each one to her mother's house. May Jehovah deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. ⁹ May Jehovah grant you that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice and wept. ¹⁰ And they said to her, Surely we will return with you to your people. ¹¹ And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Why will you go with me? Are there yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? ¹² Turn again, my daughters, go. For I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband also tonight, and should also bear sons, ¹³ would you wait for them until they were grown? Will you shut yourselves up, not to have a husband? No, my daughters, for it makes me very sad for your sakes that the hand of Jehovah has gone out against me. ¹⁴ And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law. But Ruth clung to her. ¹⁵ And she said, Behold, Your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law. ¹⁶ And Ruth said, Do not beg me to leave you, to return from following after you. For where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me. ¹⁸ When she saw that she was determined to go with her, then she quit speaking to her. ¹⁹ And both of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened when they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? ²⁰ And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara. For the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full, and Jehovah has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Jehovah has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me? ²² And Naomi returned; and Ruth, who was of Moab, her daughter-in-law, was with her, returning out of the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

⁶ Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his dainty foods; ⁷ for as he thinks in his heart, so is he; Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you. ⁸ Your bit which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and spoil your pleasant words.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. ²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it, ²⁶ that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, ²⁷ that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church. ³⁰ For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. ³¹ "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh." ³² This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. ³³ But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.

¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

¹¹ A fool speaks all his mind; but a wise one keeps it in until afterwards.

⁴ And He answered and said to them, Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning "made them male and female", ⁵ and said, For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh? ⁶ Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.