¹⁴ Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.

²⁴ There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

¹⁷ A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

³⁹ But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

¹⁰ For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

³⁴ But some men gave him their support: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

⁶⁶ Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away?

⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;

⁶⁹ And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God.

²¹ And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.

²² But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.

²² But hearing these words the young man went away sorrowing: for he had much property.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.

³⁷ He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

²³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

¹ For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

²⁰ And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?

²⁰ Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.

⁴ But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.

²⁸ You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.