Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.

For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him,

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?”

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”

And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.”

I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?”

“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.

he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,

“And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant—

True and False Fasting

“Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”

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.