World English Bible
Ruth 1:14
“They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.”
Ruth 1:14 in the King James Version
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.Read Ruth 1:14 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Ruth 1
Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;
would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me.
They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.
She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.
Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;
Cross references for Ruth 1:14
- Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
- Matthew 19:22
But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
- John 6:66-69
At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. W...
- Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
- Zechariah 8:23
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.
- Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
- 1 Kings 19:20
He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." He said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?
- Isaiah 14:1
For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
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