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Bible study · Ruth 1:1-22

Ruth 1: Your God my God

Read Ruth 1:1-22 before you meet.

In a few lines

Ruth 1 turns on one Hebrew word, return. Naomi tells her daughters-in-law to go back, Orpah goes back, and Ruth refuses to turn back: "Your people will be my people, and your God my God" (1:16). Naomi comes home calling herself empty (1:21), with Ruth beside her, "in the beginning of barley harvest" (1:22).

The verse to carry

“Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.”

Ruth 1:16

To talk about

  1. 1. Ruth said, "Your people will be my people, and your God my God" (1:16). What has following God cost you, or what might it cost you?

  2. 2. Naomi told the whole town, "the LORD has brought me home again empty" (1:21). Where do you feel free, or not free, to say honestly to God and to others how hard things are?

  3. 3. Orpah went back, and "Ruth stayed with her" (1:14). Who has stayed with you in a hard season, and who might need you to stay with them now?

Prayer requests