Quotes about Commitment
What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”
— Judges 21:7
Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
— Ruth 1:7
and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
— Ruth 1:10
Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
— Ruth 1:14
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
— Ruth 1:15
But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
— Ruth 1:16
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”
— Ruth 1:17
When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
— Ruth 1:18
Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
— Ruth 2:11
“I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered.
— Ruth 3:5
So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.
— Ruth 3:6
I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied.
— Ruth 4:4