And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Proverbs 4:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life. American Standard Version (1901) Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life. Common English Bible Hold on to instruction; don’t slack off; protect it, for it is your life. Catholic Public Domain Version Take hold of discipline. Do not dismiss it. Guard it, for it is your life. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life. |
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
He is in the way of life that heedeth correction: But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.
It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.
Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad; and he exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord:
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.
For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days upon the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them.
And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.
I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan's throne is: and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth.