Ruth 2:9

English Standard Version 2016

Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”

Cross References

1 John 5:18

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

Genesis 20:6

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.

Psalm 105:15

saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”

Job 19:21

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Ruth 2:8

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.

Ruth 2:10

Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”