Ruth and Boaz Marry

¹³ So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, ^(A)and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. ^14 (B)Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without ^(C)a redeemer, and may his name ^(D)be renowned in Israel! ¹⁵ He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, ^(E)who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.” ¹⁶ Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. ^17 (F)And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

¹¹ Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, ^(A)what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, ^12 (B)waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and ^(C)the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! ¹³ But according to his promise we are waiting for ^(D)new heavens and a new earth ^(E)in which righteousness dwells.

Final Words

^14 (F)Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him ^(G)without spot or ^(H)blemish, and ^(I)at peace. ¹⁵ And count ^(J)the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as ^(K)our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you ^(L)according to the wisdom given him, ¹⁶ as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. ^(M)There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, ^(N)as they do the other Scriptures. ¹⁷ You therefore, beloved, ^(O)knowing this beforehand, ^(P)take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. ¹⁸ But ^(Q)grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ^(R)To him be the glory both now and to the day of ^(S)eternity. Amen.