God shows us just how serious it is to dishonor parents on any level. When in law children dishonor their in law parents, it is the same as dishonoring their own parents, they will be judged for their rebellion.
To dishonor in law parents is refusing to acknowledge the love of a spouse for his/her own parents. To dishonor the parents of our spouse is to show an absence of love for that spouse.
Many in law children are turning their spouses away from their parents, simply out of spiteful drama, to dominate their spouse. This is evil and worthy of God's wrath.
When we marry we are expected by God to honor the parents of our spouse the same way we should honor our own parents. God told us to leave and cleave in forming our own families, but He never removed His command to continue to honor parents in their old age.
When children show contempt for their parents or the parents of their spouse, they are showing their contempt for God. It is strong if not conclusive evidence that the grown children do not belong to Christ, they are most likely have never been born again.
Leviticus 20:9
"For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him."
Colossians 3:20
"Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord."
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear."
Exodus 21:15
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death."
Ephesians 6:1
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
Proverbs 30:17
"The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures."
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