Ruth 2:22

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

How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

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

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’ ”

David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

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?”

But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”

Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

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

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.