Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Ruth 4:10, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Deuteronomy 25:6
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
- Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- Psalms 34:16
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
- Genesis 29:27
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
- Proverbs 18:22
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
- Psalms 109:15
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
- Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
- Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
- Isaiah 48:19
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from …
- Zechariah 13:2
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be …
- Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wil…
- Hosea 12:12
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
More to meet God in Ruth
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.