and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,

As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

Marks of the True Christian

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

but test everything; hold fast what is good.

but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

Jesus the Great High Priest

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

“‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Only hold fast what you have until I come.

I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.