Colossians 3:6Open English Bible (US)

Ruth 1:12

Go back, my daughters, go your own way, because I am too old to have a husband. Even if I should say, ‘I have hope,’ even if I should have a husband tonight and should bear sons,

Ruth 2:22

Naomi said to Ruth, “It is best, my daughter, that you should go out with his girls because you might not be as safe in another field.”

Ruth 3:17

“He gave me these six measures of barley,” she said, “for he said I should not go to my mother-in-law empty-handed.”

Ruth 4:4

and I thought that I would lay the matter before you, suggesting that you buy it in the presence of these men who sit here and of the elders of my people. If you will buy it and so keep it in the possession of the family, do so; but if not; then tell me, so that I may know; for no one but you has the right to buy it, and I am next to you.” “I will buy it,” he said.

Ruth 4:6

“I cannot buy it for myself without spoiling my own inheritance,” the near relative said. “You take my right of buying it as a relative, because I cannot do so.”