Relationships and family
What does the Bible say about in-laws?
Ruth and Naomi show what loyalty between in-laws can look like, and Scripture's wider call to patience and honour applies here too.
What Scripture says
“Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.””
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
“But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,”
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