Ruth 1:14
And they lifted up their voices, and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24
He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Genesis 31:28
and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou have done foolishly.
Genesis 31:55
And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.
Deuteronomy 4:4
But ye who clung to LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
Deuteronomy 10:20
Thou shall fear LORD thy God. Him thou shall serve, and to him thou shall cling, and by his name thou shall swear.
1 Kings 19:20
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again, for what have I done to thee?
Isaiah 14:1
For LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. And the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob.
Zechariah 8:23
Thus says LORD of hosts: In those days, ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.
Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew 19:22
But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowing, for he was having many possessions.
Mark 10:21-22
And having looked at him, Jesus loved him, and said to him, One thing thou lack. Go thou, sell as many things as thou have, and give to the poor, and thou will have treasure in heaven. And after taking up the cross, come, follow me
John 6:66-69
From this, many of his disciples went back at these things, and walked no more with him.
Acts 17:34
But some men, having joined with him, believed, among whom was also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of retreat for destruction, but of faith for the preservation of the soul.