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 1:16-17
“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.””
Genesis 2:24
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
1 Timothy 5:8
“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.”
Romans 12:10
“In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,”
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