See, now is the acceptable time.

But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me. When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem.

“As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.”

Then I will also acknowledge to you that your own right hand can give you victory.

You were taught . . . to put off your old self . . . to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with him.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.

I kept my faith, even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”

Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning.