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

And they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Boaz replied to her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know.

She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also took it out and gave Naomi what she had left after she was satisfied.

Her mother-in-law then said to her, “Where did you glean today and where did you work? May he who took notice of you be blessed.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

So she stayed close by the maids of Boaz in order to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek security for you, that it may be well with you?

So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.

When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did it go, my daughter?” And she told her all that the man had done for her.

She said, “These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

For son treats father contemptuously,
Daughter rises up against her mother,
Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
A man’s enemies are the men of his own household.

When Jesus came into Peter’s home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever.

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

Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they *spoke to Jesus about her.

Then He got up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him to help her.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.