Most Popular Bible Verses in Ruth 1

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Verse ConceptsBest friendIntimacyFriendship, Examples OfProselytesYou Are Our GodWalking In Love

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.

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Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfJudgesRefugeesSojourningJudging IsraelTimes Of People

Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

3
Verse ConceptsWidows

Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.

4
Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldDaughters In LawGod Visiting

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the land of Moab, for she had heard in the land of Moab that the Lord had visited His people in giving them food.

5
Verse ConceptsActual WidowsBereavement

Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was bereft of her two children and her husband.

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Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningGood Wives ExamplesTen To Fourteen Years

They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.

7
Verse ConceptsGoing Together

And they said to her, “No, but we will surely return with you to your people.”

8
Verse ConceptsDaughters In Law

So she departed from the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

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Verse ConceptsKindnessMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

10
Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWeepingKissesgoodbyes

May the Lord grant that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

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Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingFarewellsClinging To PeopleMother In Lawsgoodbyes

And they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

12
Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfLimitations Of Old PeopleConceptionNot MarryingWaiting Till Marriage

Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons,

13
Verse ConceptsAbortionGoing TogetherConceptionWaiting Till Marriage

But Naomi said, “Return, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

14
Verse ConceptsRuthIndividuals Being Silent

When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her.

15
Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGrowing UpPeople WaitingNot MarryingWaiting Till Marriage

would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters; for it is harder for me than for you, for the hand of the Lord has gone forth against me.”

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Verse ConceptsBarleyGrainHarvestAutumnIndividuals going home

So Naomi returned, and with her Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, who returned from the land of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

18
Verse ConceptsThe DeadPromises, HumanResigned To DeathAnother's Burial Place

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the Lord do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.”

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Verse ConceptsMothers, Examples Of

Then she said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”

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Verse ConceptsGod's Mercy, Example OfTownIs It Really?

So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. And when they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was stirred because of them, and the women said, “Is this Naomi?”

21
Verse ConceptsemptinessLossPessimismEmpty PeopleFilling PeopleTragedy

I went out full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has witnessed against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

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Verse ConceptsNamed Wives

The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they entered the land of Moab and remained there.

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Verse ConceptsDisappointments, Examples OfPeople Renaming PeopleGod TroublingPeople With Apt NamesDepressionBitterness

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.