Mother-in-law

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningMatthew 10:35
• Not to be defiledLeviticus 18:17Leviticus 20:14Deuteronomy 27:23
• Beloved by RuthRuth 1:14–17
• Peter's, healed by JesusMark 1:30Mark 1:31

The passages, in Bible order (7)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 7 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Leviticus 18:17

   You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

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2. Leviticus 20:14

   If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 20:142 voices

   “The only instance of another form of capital punishment occurs in Le 20:14, that of being burnt with fire; and yet it is probable that even here death was first inflicted by stoning, and the body of the criminal afterwards consumed by fire (Jos 7:15).

   “They shall be burnt with fire - As there are worse crimes mentioned here, (see Lev 20:11 and Lev 20:17), where the delinquent is ordered simply to be put to death, or to be cut off, it is very likely that the crime mentioned in this verse was not punished by burning alive, but by some kind of branding, by which they were ever after rendered infamous.

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3. Deuteronomy 27:23

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

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4. Ruth 1:14–17

   Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

   ›Commentary on Ruth 1:14–171 voice

   “And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law - The Septuagint add, Και επεστρεψεν εις τον λαον αυτης, And returned to her own people. The Vulgate, Syrian, and Arabic, are to the same purpose.

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5. Matthew 10:35

   For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 10:352 voices

   “(Verse 35) For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies will be those of his own household. This passage is written in almost the same words in the prophet Micah (Micah 7). And it should be noted whenever a testimony from the Old Testament is presented, whether the meaning alone or also the wording agrees.

   “In these verses the great head of the church winds up his first charge to those whom he sends forth to make known his Gospel. He declares three great truths, which form a fitting conclusion to the whole discourse. In the first place, he bids us remember that his Gospel will not cause peace and agreement wherever it comes.

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6. Mark 1:30

   Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever, and they promptly told Jesus about her.

   ›Commentary on Mark 1:302 voices

   These verses begin the long list of miracles which Mark's Gospel contains. They tell us how our Lord cast out devils in Capernaum, and healed Peter's wife's mother of a fever. We learn, in the first place, from these verses, the uselessness of a mere intellectual knowledge of religion . Twice we are specially told that the unclean spirits know our Lord. In one place it says, "they knew Him." to another, the devil cries out, "I know you who you are, the Holy One of God."

   “WE SEE BEFORE US small beginnings and grand endings. One man is called by the voice of Jesus, and then another; the house wherein they dwell is consecrated by the Lord's presence, and by-and-by the whole city is stirred from end to end with the name and fame of the Great Teacher.

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7. Mark 1:31

   So He went to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began to serve them.

   ›Commentary on Mark 1:312 voices

   These verses begin the long list of miracles which Mark's Gospel contains. They tell us how our Lord cast out devils in Capernaum, and healed Peter's wife's mother of a fever. We learn, in the first place, from these verses, the uselessness of a mere intellectual knowledge of religion . Twice we are specially told that the unclean spirits know our Lord. In one place it says, "they knew Him." to another, the devil cries out, "I know you who you are, the Holy One of God."

   “WE SEE BEFORE US small beginnings and grand endings. One man is called by the voice of Jesus, and then another; the house wherein they dwell is consecrated by the Lord's presence, and by-and-by the whole city is stirred from end to end with the name and fame of the Great Teacher.

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