Ruth 1:16

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:21

Ittai answered the king and said, “As the Lord lives and as lives my lord the king, only in the place where my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, there alone will your servant be.”

Psalm 45:10

Listen, O daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your own people and your father’s house,

Proverbs 17:17

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

Isaiah 14:1

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. Then the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Daniel 2:47

The king answered Daniel and said, “Truly your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret.”

Daniel 3:29

Therefore I make a decree that every people, nation, and language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill, because there is no other God who can deliver in this way.”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and those who walk in pride He is able to abase.

Hosea 13:4

Yet I am the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt. You know no God but Me, and there is no savior besides Me.

Zechariah 8:23

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: In those days ten men from every language of the nations will take hold of the garment of a Jew, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”

Matthew 8:19

Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”

John 13:37

Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake.”

Acts 21:13

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

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves declare how we were received by you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

Joshua 24:18

The Lord drove out before us all the people, even the Amorites, who lived in the land. So we will indeed serve the Lord, for He is our God.”

Revelation 14:4

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

Ruth 1:15

Naomi said, “Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and her gods. Return with her!”

Ruth 1:17

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do thus to me, and worse, if anything but death separates you and me!”

Ruth 2:6

So the servant who was in charge of his harvesters answered, “She is the young Moabitess woman who came back with Naomi from the land of Moab.

Ruth 4:15

He will be a comfort for your soul and support you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”