Matthew 22:37 (NIV): Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

Ecclesiastes 4:9 (NIV): Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor

Proverbs 13:20 (NIV): Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 12:26 (NIV): The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Proverbs 27:17 (NIV): As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

1 Corinthians 15:33 (NIV): Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

Purpose

Amos 3:3 (MSG): Do two people walk hand in hand if they aren’t going to the same place?

2 Corinthians 6:14 (NIV): Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

Ruth 1:11 (NIV): But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?

Ruth 1:14 (NIV): At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

Luke 8:21 (NIV): He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice.”

Ruth 1:16 (NIV): 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.

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 Problem

Proverbs 17:17 (NIV): A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

Ruth 1:20 (NIV): “Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because theAlmighty has made my life very bitter.

Ruth 2:2 (NIV): And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her,“Go ahead, my daughter.”

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Productivity

Deuteronomy 32:30 (NIV): How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?

Ruth 2:11 (NIV): Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.

Ruth 4:12 (NIV): Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”