Ruth 3:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, I need to seek some security for you, so that it may be well with you.

Cross References

Genesis 40:14

But remember me when it is well with you; please do me the kindness to make mention of me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this place.

Psalm 128:2

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.

1 Corinthians 7:36

If anyone thinks that he is behaving indecently toward his fiancée, if his passions are strong and so it has to be, let him marry as he wishes; it is no sin. Let them marry.

Deuteronomy 4:40

Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.

1 Timothy 5:8

And whoever does not provide for relatives, and especially for family members, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ruth 1:9

The Lord grant that you may find security, each of you in the house of your husband.” Then she kissed them, and they wept aloud.

Ruth 2:23

So she stayed close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests, and she lived with her mother-in-law.

Ruth 3:2

Now here is our kinsman Boaz, with whose young women you have been working. See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.