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Ruth 1:8

Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.

Ruth 1:8 BSB
  1. a Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.

Ruth 1:8 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ruth 1:5 (8 votes) and Ruth 2:20 (8 votes). 3 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Joshua 24 to 2 Timothy 1.

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Which verses does Ruth 1:8 point to?

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  1. Ruth 1:58 votes

    both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.

  2. Ruth 2:208 votes

    Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”

  3. Colossians 3:187 votes

    Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  4. Colossians 3:246 votes

    because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

  5. Ephesians 6:2–34 votes

    “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

  6. Joshua 24:15–283 votes

    But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!” The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods! …

  7. Ephesians 5:223 votes

    Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

  8. 2 Timothy 1:16–182 votes

    May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains. Indeed, when he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently until he found me. …

  9. Luke 14:25–330 votes

    Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple. …

  10. Philippians 4:18–190 votes

    I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God. And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

Which verses point to Ruth 1:8?

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