1 Peter 2:10Open English Bible (US)
Once you were ‘not a people,’ but now you are ‘God’s people’; once you ‘had not found mercy,’ but now you ‘have found mercy.’
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In the time when the judges ruled, there was once a famine in the land. A man from Bethlehem in Judah took his wife and two sons to live in the territory of Moab.
Ruth 1:6
So she set out with her daughters-in-law to return from the land of Moab, for she had heard that the Lord had remembered his people and given them food.
Ruth 1:10
and said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.”
Ruth 1:15
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her own people and to her own gods. Go along with her!”
Ruth 1:16
But Ruth answered, “Do not urge me to leave you or to go back. I will go where you go, and I will stay wherever you stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God;