Ruth 1:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.”
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“Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And they lift up their voice, and weep again, and Orpah kisseth her mother-in-law, and Ruth hath cleaved to her.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ruth 1:14 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 31:28But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
- Genesis 31:55Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.
- Deuteronomy 4:4But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.
- Deuteronomy 10:20You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
- Ruth 1:7Accompanied 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.
- Ruth 2:11Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
- 1 Kings 19:20So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
- Proverbs 17:17A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- Proverbs 18:24A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
- Isaiah 14:1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
- Zechariah 8:23This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
- Matthew 10:37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- Matthew 16:24Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
- Matthew 19:22When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.
- Mark 10:21Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
- John 6:66From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.
- Acts 17:34But some joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.
- 2 Timothy 4:10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
- Hebrews 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
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