As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:

Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,

Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

“In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab. The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there. Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons, who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years, both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband. . . .

Catch for us the foxes—the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—for our vineyards are in bloom.