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Bible Verses About Son in law

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For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

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And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.

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And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

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For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

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Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

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And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

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But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

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Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

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If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

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A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

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And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

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And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

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And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

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A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

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Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

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But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

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Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

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Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

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Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

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Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

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And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

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And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

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And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

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So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.

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Amon his son, Josiah his son.

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And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

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Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

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And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

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David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?

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And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

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And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

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Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

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If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,

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