DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

Passages on this topic · 11

• Ruth 1:11

  Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

• Ruth 1:12

  Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

• Ruth 1:13

  would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

• Ruth 1:14

  They lifted up their voices, and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

• Ruth 1:15

  She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

• Ruth 1:16

  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.

• Ruth 1:17

  Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

• Ruth 1:18

  When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

• Ruth 4:15

  He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

• Micah 7:6

  For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

• Matthew 10:35

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