¹¹ And Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully reported to me, ^(A)all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before.

³³ So likewise, whoever of you ^(A)does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

²⁹ So He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, ^(A)there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, ^30 (B)who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.”

¹¹ So when they had brought their boats to land, ^(A)they ^[a]forsook all and followed Him.

²⁴ By faith ^(A)Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the ^[a]passing pleasures of sin, ²⁶ esteeming ^(B)the ^[b]reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures ^[c]in Egypt; for he looked to the ^(C)reward.

¹⁴ Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth ^(A)clung to her.

¹⁵ And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to ^(B)her people and to her gods; ^(C)return after your sister-in-law.”

¹⁶ But Ruth said:

^18 (G)When she saw that she ^[b]was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.

¹⁹ Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that ^(H)all the city was excited because of them; and the women said, ^(I)“Is this Naomi?”

²⁰ But she said to them, “Do not call me ^[c]Naomi; call me ^[d]Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full, ^(J)and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and ^[e]the Almighty has afflicted me?”

²² So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem ^(K)at the beginning of barley harvest.

Faithful Abraham^(A)

⁸ By faith ^(B)Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. ⁹ By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, ^(C)dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, ^(D)the heirs with him of the same promise;

²³ Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’?