Ruth 1:17
1:17 Wherever you die, I will die – and there I will be buried.
May the Lord punish me severely if I do not keep my promise!
Only death will be able to separate me from you!”
Ruth 1:20
1:20 But she replied
to them,
“Don’t call me ‘Naomi’!
Call me ‘Mara’
because the Sovereign One
has treated me very harshly.
Ruth 2:13
2:13 She said, “You really are being kind to me,
sir,
for you have reassured
and encouraged
me, your servant,
even though I am
not one of your servants!”
Ruth 2:22
2:22 Naomi then said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “It is good, my daughter, that you should go out to work with his female servants.
That way you will not be harmed, which could happen in another field.”
Ruth 3:9
3:9 He said, “Who are you?”
She replied, “I am Ruth, your servant.
Marry your servant,
for you are a guardian of the family interests.”
Ruth 3:14
3:14 So she slept beside him
until morning. She woke up while it was still dark.
Boaz thought,
“No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor.”
Ruth 3:17
3:17 She said, “He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me,
‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
Ruth 4:15
4:15 He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old,
for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She
is better to you than seven sons!”