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18 Bible Verses About Loyalty in Relationships

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  • The Hebrew hesed, glossed in Strong’s as steadfast love, loyalty and faithfulness, is the word the NIV translates “kindness” in Ruth 1:8 and 2 Samuel 9:1 and “unfailing love” in Proverbs 20:6.
  • Genesis 2:24 and Ruth 1:14 use the same verb, dabaq, to cling: of a husband to his wife and of Ruth to Naomi.
  • Jonathan asked David to keep kindness to his family (1 Samuel 20:14-15), and David kept it by restoring land to Jonathan’s son Mephibosheth and giving him a place at the king’s table (2 Samuel 9:7).
  • Malachi 2:14 calls a wife “your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant” and names the Lord as witness between husband and wife.
  • Joshua 24:15 and Matthew 6:24 present loyalty to God as one that cannot be shared with other gods or with money.

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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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 2617, חֶסֶד (hesed): steadfast love, loyalty, faithfulness, goodness; used in Ruth 1:8, 2 Samuel 9:1 and Proverbs 20:6. biblehub.com/hebrew/2617

Strong’s Hebrew 1692, דָּבַק (dabaq): to cling, cleave, adhere; used in Genesis 2:24 and Ruth 1:14. biblehub.com/hebrew/1692

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