But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, ​and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, ​and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, ​and uphold me with a willing spirit.

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.