Bible Cross References
Will
Joshua 24:15-22
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And if it seems evil to you to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers have served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
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And the people answered and said: Far be it from us to forsake Jehovah to serve other gods;
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for Jehovah our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who has done those great signs before our eyes, and preserved us in all the way that we have gone and among all the people through whom we have passed.
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And Jehovah drove out before us all the people, including the Amorites who were living in the land. We also will serve Jehovah, for He is our God.
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And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve Jehovah, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous Mighty God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
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If you forsake Jehovah and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do evil and consume you, after He has done you good.
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And the people said to Joshua, No, but we will serve Jehovah!
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And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Jehovah for yourselves, to serve Him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Ruth 1:11-18
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And Naomi said, Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
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Turn back, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, if I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons,
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would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of Jehovah has gone out against me!
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And they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
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And she said, Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.
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But Ruth said: Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.
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Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.
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When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.
2 Samuel 15:19
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you also going with us? Return to your place and remain with the king. For you are a foreigner and also an exile.
2 Samuel 15:20
You came only recently. Should I make you go here and there with us this day, since I am going wherever I can? Return, and take your brethren back. Mercy and truth be with you.
Luke 14:25-33
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And great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them,
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If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
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And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
28
For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it;
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lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
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saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.
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Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
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Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks terms of peace.
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So likewise, whoever of you does not bid farewell to all that he has is not able to be My disciple.