No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

And He said to them, What man among you will be, who will have one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the sabbaths, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?

Then the Pharisees went out and held council against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

For Herod had laid hold on John, and had bound him, and had put him in prison because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife.

But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and get hold of his inheritance.

But seeking to lay hands on Him, they feared the crowd, because they held Him for a prophet.

And he who betrayed Him gave them a sign, saying, Whomever I shall kiss, He is the one, lay hold on Him.

But as they were going to report to His disciples, behold, Jesus also met them, saying, Hail! And they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him.

And hearing, those with Him went out to take hold of Him; for they said, He is insane.

For Herod himself had sent out and laid hold on John and had bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. For he had married her,

And Herodias held it against him, and desired to kill him, but she could not.

And coming from the market, they do not eat without immersing, and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the dippings of cups and pots, and of copper vessels, and of tables.

For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the dippings of pots and cups. And many other such things you do.

But if we shall say, From men, they feared the people, for all held John to be a prophet indeed.

And immediately in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate.

And day coming on, going out, He went into a deserted place. And the crowds looked for Him and came to Him, and held Him fast, not to pass away from them.

No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

And they could not take hold of His words before the people. And they marveled at His answer and were silent.

And laying hold on Him, they led Him away and brought Him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.

And the men who held Jesus mocked Him, beating Him.

And as they led Him away, they laid hold on one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. And they laid the cross on him, that he might carry it after Jesus.

But their eyes were held so that they could not know Him.

Then when Jesus came, He found him already being held in the tomb four days.

He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and held the moneybag and carried the things put in.

whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

And as the lame one who was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

Then the high priest said, Then do you so hold these things?

But the multitude of the city was divided. And part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

And taking hold of him, they led him to the Areopagus, saying, Are we able to know what is this new doctrine of which you speak?

Then going near, the chiliarch laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains. And he demanded who he was and what he had done.

And laying hold of his hand, and drawing aside privately, the chiliarch asked him, What is it that you have to tell me?

But Paul having appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be held until I might send him to Caesar.

And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea; at the same time they loosened the rudder bands and hoisted up the foresail to the wind and held to the shore.

But now we having been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

by which you also are being kept safe, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, desiring to lay hold of me.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage.

Therefore receive him in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor,

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Prove all things, hold fast to the good.

Therefore, my brothers, stand fast and hold the teachings which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

Hold on to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this you shall both save yourself and those who hear you.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

For truly He did not take the nature of angels, but He took hold of the seed of Abraham.

But Christ was faithful as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt," because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised),

but had reproof of his lawbreaking, a dumb ass speaking in a man's voice, held back the madness of the prophet.

For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,

I know your works, and where you live, even where Satan's seat is . And you hold fast My name and have not denied My faith, even in those days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.

So you also have those who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

But that which you have, hold fast until I come.

Remember then how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

Behold, I come quickly. Hold fast to that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.

And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held.

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.