38 Bible Verses about Cords

I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.

One can be overpowered by another, two can withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

I called on Jehovah in my distress. I cried to my God for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help reached his ears.

The cords of death surrounded me. The torrents of wickedness frightened me.

The cords of the grave surrounded me. The snares of death confronted me.

The ropes of death became tangled around me. The fear of the grave took hold of me. I experienced pain and agony.

Enlarge the place of your tent. Stretch your tent curtains wide and do not hold back. Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out of Egypt so that you are no longer slaves of the Egyptians. I have broken their power over you and made you live as a free people.

When Israel was a young man, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

I will take nothing. Not a thread or a sandal strap. You will not be able to say: 'I have made Abram rich.'

Delilah tied him with new ropes. Then she shouted: Samson! The Philistines are coming! The men were waiting in another room. However he snapped the ropes off his arms like thread.

What do you want? he asked. The ring on that cord around your neck, she replied. I also want the special walking stick you have with you. So he gave them to her. They slept together and she became pregnant.

As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. I am pregnant by the man who owns these, she said. She added: See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.

When we come into the land, tie this scarlet cord in the window from which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers and sisters and your father's entire household into your home.

She said: Let it be according to your words. They departed and she tied the scarlet line in the window.

As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand. The midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said: This one came out first.

Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out and he was given the name Zerah.

Then the breastplate should be fastened by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a violet cord. Attach it just above the belt of the ephod. This will hold the breastplate in place.

Finally they fastened the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a violet cord. So the breast piece was attached just above the belt of the ephod and was held in place. They followed Jehovah's instructions to Moses.

Fasten it on a blue cord and on the turban. It should be at the front of the turban.

They fastened a violet cord to it and tied it on top of the turban. They followed Jehovah's instructions to Moses.

the Tent pegs and ropes for the Tent and the enclosure;

There were hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best (cotton) linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone. The seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.

The gold was hammered into thin sheets and cut up. They twisted the gold into threads, which they creatively worked into each strand of the violet, purple, and bright red yarn, and throughout the fine linen.

Fasten the two gold ropes to the rings at the top corners of the breastplate.

or on any woven piece of linen or wool cloth or on leather or anything made of leather,

if it is greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the priest.

He will examine it again on the seventh day. If the mildew has spread, the object is unclean.

The priest will burn it, because it is a spreading mildew. It must be destroyed by fire.

If the priest finds that the mildew has not spread on the object,

When the priest examines it again, the mildew has faded; he will tear it out of the clothing or leather.

Then if the mildew reappears, it is spreading again, and the owner must burn the object.

If he washes the object and the spot disappears, he should wash it again. It will be ritually clean.

This is the law about mildew on clothing. Whether it is wool or linen, or on linen or wool cloth or on anything made of leather; this is how the decision is made as to whether it is ritually clean or unclean.

When the silver cord is snapped apart, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

The cords of the wicked have encircled me. But I have not forgotten your law.