Ruth 1:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But Ruth replied: Don’t plead with me to abandon you or to return and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:21

But in response, Ittai vowed to the king, ‘As the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether it means life or death, your servant will be there! ’

Matthew 8:19

A scribe approached him and said,  ‘Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.’

John 13:37

‘Lord,’ Peter asked, ‘why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life  for you.’

1 Thessalonians 1:9

for they themselves report  what kind of reception  we had from you: how you turned  to God from idols  to serve the living  and true  God

Isaiah 14:1

For the Lord will have compassion  on Jacob and will choose Israel again.  He will settle them on their own land.  The resident foreigner will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul replied, ‘What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.’

Hosea 13:4

I have been the Lord your God ever since  the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and no Saviour exists besides me.

Daniel 2:47

The king said to Daniel, ‘Your God is indeed God of gods, Lord of kings,  and a revealer of mysteries,  since you were able to reveal this mystery.’

Revelation 14:4

These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, since they remained virgins.  These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed  from humanity as the firstfruits  for God and the Lamb.

Joshua 24:18

The Lord drove out before us all the peoples, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will worship the Lord, because he is our God.’

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of the heavens, because all his works are true and his ways are just.  He is able to humble  those who walk in pride.

Daniel 3:29

Therefore I issue a decree  that anyone of any people, nation, or language  who says anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be torn limb from limb and his house made a rubbish dump.  For there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.’

Ruth 1:15

Naomi said, ‘Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods.  Follow your sister-in-law.’

Ruth 1:17

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me, and do so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.

Ruth 4:15

He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. Indeed, your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons,  has given birth to him.’

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time.

Ruth 2:6

The servant answered, ‘She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the territory of Moab.

Zechariah 8:23

The Lord of Armies says this: ‘In those days, ten men from nations of every language will grab the robe of a Jewish man tightly, urging: Let us go with you,  for we have heard that God is with you.’