Ruth 1:14

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Summary

Ruth 1:14

And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.

Orpah

But ruth

General references

Deuteronomy 4:4

Bible References

Orpah

and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.

Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, “One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to

Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

But ruth

But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name.

A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.

A man of too many friends comes to ruin,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

When the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘In those days ten men from all the nations will

grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.

But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

General references

But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.