¹⁶ But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. ^(A)Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. ^(B)May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

⁴ Let each of you ^(A)look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

^6 (A)who, though he was in ^(B)the form of God, did not count equality with God ^(C)a thing to be grasped,^{[a] 7} but ^(D)emptied himself, by taking the form of a ^(E)servant,^{[b] (F)}being born in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself by ^(G)becoming obedient to the point of death, ^(H)even death on a cross. ^9 (I)Therefore ^(J)God has ^(K)highly exalted him and bestowed on him ^(L)the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus ^(M)every knee should bow, ^(N)in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and ^(O)every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is ^(P)Lord, to the glory of God the Father.