Ruth 3:1

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

“Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.

that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,

“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.”

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

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

He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.

Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.

Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

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?

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”