Verse 15

Naomi said, "Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Return with her."

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 11:24 : 24 Do you not take what your god Chemosh gives you? Likewise, we will take possession of whatever the Lord our God has driven out before us.
  • 2 Sam 15:19-20 : 19 The king said to Ittai the Gittite, 'Why should you go with us too? Go back and stay with the new king, for you are a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.' 20 ‘You only came yesterday, so why should I make you wander with us today? I must go wherever I can. Return and take your brothers with you. May kindness and faithfulness be with you.’
  • 2 Kgs 2:2 : 2 Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Bethel." But Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Bethel.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And I will remove those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 But if it seems undesirable to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve—whether the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.
  • Josh 24:19 : 19 Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD. He is a holy God; He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.
  • Matt 13:20-21 : 20 The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. 21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
  • Luke 14:26-33 : 26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to face the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still far away and ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way, any one of you who does not give up all his possessions cannot be my disciple.
  • Luke 24:28 : 28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther.
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, My soul will have no pleasure in him.
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their going out showed that none of them belonged to us.
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.