Top 30 Bible Verses About Ruth

Update on March 30, 2020 by Pastor Jack Wellman

Ruth lived in the time of the judges. She had married the son of an Israelite family while they were living in Moab, but her father-in-law, husband, and husband’s only brother died. So Ruth had to make a decision whether to stay in Moab, her home, or to go with her mother-in-law, Naomi, to a land she had never known called Judah.

Ruth is an example of how God can change a life. We see God working out His perfect plan in Ruth’s life, just as He does with all His children. Here are our top 30 Bible verses about Ruth!

When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.

- Ruth 2:15

Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

- Ruth 1:17

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food.

- Ruth 1:6

And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

- Ruth 2:19

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

- Ruth 1:22

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.

- Ruth 4:13

And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”

- Ruth 2:16

And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.

- Ruth 1:18

So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

- Ruth 2:17

He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

- Ruth 4:15

So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?”

- Ruth 1:19

So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

- Ruth 2:23

Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”

- Ruth 4:10

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

- Ruth 2:2

And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”

- Ruth 1:15

And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

- Ruth 2:14

and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.

- Ruth 1:5

But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.

- Ruth 2:11

And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.

- Ruth 2:18

Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”

- Ruth 2:10

So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

- Ruth 1:7

And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”

- Ruth 2:20

And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you!” And they answered, “The LORD bless you.”

- Ruth 2:4

And he said, “May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.

- Ruth 3:10

Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”

- Ruth 2:13

Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!

- Ruth 4:14

And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.

- Ruth 3:11

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. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.

- Ruth 1:16-17

But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

- Ruth 1:8

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The LORD repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!"

- Ruth 2:12

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