The Bible treats loyalty as keeping faith with a person when it costs something, and two stories show it. Ruth refuses to leave Naomi (Ruth 1:16-17), and Jonathan makes a covenant with David (1 Samuel 18:3) that David later keeps for Jonathan’s son (2 Samuel 9:1). Proverbs adds the friend who “loves at all times” (Proverbs 17:17), Malachi 2:16 charges husbands not to be unfaithful to their wives, and Joshua 24:15 and Matthew 6:24 ask for a loyalty to God…
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