Bible Cross References
Will
Joshua 24:15-22
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If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve the LORD."
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The people replied, "We would never leave the LORD to serve other gods!
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The LORD our God brought our fathers and us out of slavery in Egypt, and we saw the miracles that he performed. He kept us safe wherever we went among all the nations through which we passed.
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As we advanced into this land, the LORD drove out all the Amorites who lived here. So we also will serve the LORD; he is our God."
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Joshua said to the people, "But you may not be able to serve the LORD. He is a holy God and will not forgive your sins. He will tolerate no rivals,
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and if you leave him to serve foreign gods, he will turn against you and punish you. He will destroy you, even though he was good to you before."
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The people said to Joshua, "No! We will serve the LORD."
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Joshua told them, "You are your own witnesses to the fact that you have chosen to serve the LORD." "Yes," they said, "we are witnesses."
Ruth 1:11-18
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"You must go back, my daughters," Naomi answered. "Why do you want to come with me? Do you think I could have sons again for you to marry?
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Go back home, for I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and so got married tonight and had sons,
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would you wait until they had grown up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that's impossible. The LORD has turned against me, and I feel very sorry for you."
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Again they started crying. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye and went back home, but Ruth held on to her.
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So Naomi said to her, "Ruth, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Go back home with her."
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But Ruth answered, "Don't ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
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Wherever you die, I will die, and that is where I will be buried. May the LORD's worst punishment come upon me if I let anything but death separate me from you!"
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When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.
2 Samuel 15:19
and the king said to Ittai, their leader, "Why are you going with us? Go back and stay with the new king. You are a foreigner, a refugee away from your own country.
2 Samuel 15:20
You have lived here only a short time, so why should I make you wander around with me? I don't even know where I'm going. Go back and take all your people with you---and may the LORD be kind and faithful to you."
Luke 14:25-33
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Once when large crowds of people were going along with Jesus, he turned and said to them,
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"Those who come to me cannot be my disciples unless they love me more than they love father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and themselves as well.
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Those who do not carry their own cross and come after me cannot be my disciples.
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If one of you is planning to build a tower, you sit down first and figure out what it will cost, to see if you have enough money to finish the job.
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If you don't, you will not be able to finish the tower after laying the foundation; and all who see what happened will make fun of you.
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'You began to build but can't finish the job!' they will say.
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If a king goes out with ten thousand men to fight another king who comes against him with twenty thousand men, he will sit down first and decide if he is strong enough to face that other king.
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If he isn't, he will send messengers to meet the other king to ask for terms of peace while he is still a long way off.
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In the same way," concluded Jesus, "none of you can be my disciple unless you give up everything you have.