Ruth 1:7

All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.

and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”

But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”

They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”

They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

Elisha 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?”

He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’ ” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

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.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

Yahweh of Armies says: “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.’ ”

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.

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.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

But certain men joined with him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.