Ruth 2:18

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.” ’

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.

Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

“I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.