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Ruth 1:8
Ruth 1:8 is verse 8 of Ruth chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.
King James Version
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
World English Bible
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
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Ruth 1:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
7 Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
9 May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
10 and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
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Joshua 24:15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
Joshua 24:16The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!
Joshua 24:17For the LORD our God brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and performed these great signs before our eyes. He also protected us throughout our journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.
Joshua 24:18And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”
Joshua 24:19But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
Joshua 24:20If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”
Joshua 24:21“No!” replied the people. “We will serve the LORD!”
Joshua 24:22Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.
Joshua 24:23“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
Joshua 24:24So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”
Joshua 24:25On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
Joshua 24:26Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.
Joshua 24:27And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”
Joshua 24:28Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
Luke 14:25Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,
Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
Luke 14:27And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
Luke 14:28Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?
Luke 14:29Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
Luke 14:30saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
Luke 14:31Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:32And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.
Luke 14:33In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
Philippians 4:18I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
Philippians 4:19And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:16May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
2 Timothy 1:17Indeed, when he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently until he found me.
2 Timothy 1:18May the Lord grant Onesiphorus His mercy on that day. You know very well how much he ministered to me in Ephesus.
Ruth 1:5both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
Ruth 2:20Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
Ephesians 5:22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
Ephesians 6:2“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Ephesians 6:3“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
Colossians 3:18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Colossians 3:24because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.