Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.”
Proverbs 4:13 - Revised Standard Version Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.”
He who heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money; and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Scarcely had I passed them, when I found him whom my soul loves. 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 gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life;
When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose;
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
For it is no trifle for you, but it is your life, and thereby you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
Therefore we must pay the closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
“ ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is; you hold fast my name and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.