Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”
You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.
For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home.
And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly.
But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today.
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