And you who held fast to Jehovah your God are alive, every one of you, this day.

You shall fear Jehovah your God. You shall serve Him, and you shall hold fast to Him, and swear by His name.

For if you will carefully keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him,

You shall walk after Jehovah your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a peg of the tent and put a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the peg into his temple, and beat it into the ground. For he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

And he said to her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that have never been used, then I shall be weak and be as another man.

But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

And she wrote in the letter, saying, Proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people.

They proclaimed a fast and set Naboth on high among the people.

But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him. And he sent a man from before him. But before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek Jehovah, and called for a fast throughout all Judah.

Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is being built with great stones, and timber is being laid in the walls, and this work goes on fast and is blessed in their hands.

Then I called a fast there at the river Ahava, so that we might humble ourselves before our God, in order to seek from Him a right way for us and for our little ones, and for all our goods.

were holding fast to their brothers, their honored ones. And they entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's Law which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to be careful to do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes.

Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, night or day. My maidservants and I will also fast in the same way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I perish, I perish.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not endure.

My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way, and have not fallen away;

I hold fast by my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart shall not shame me any of my days.

If my step has turned out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands;

when the dust is melted into hardness, and the clods cling fast together?

For Your arrows stick fast in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly holds fast to the earth.

I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall stand fast with him.

Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones hold fast to my skin.

standing fast forever and ever; they are done in truth and uprightness.

He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live.

Take fast hold of instruction; do not let go; keep her; for she is your life.

They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.

Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness; you shall not fast as you do today, to make your voice to be heard on high.

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed ones go free, and that you break every yoke?

Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

For as the girdle holds fast to the loins of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me, says Jehovah; so that they might be to Me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory; but they would not hear.

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.

And it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, they called a fast before Jehovah to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.

Declare it in Egypt, and cry it in Migdol, and make it heard in Noph and in Tahpanhes. Say, Stand fast and get ready, the sword shall devour all around you.

The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.

So says Jehovah of Hosts: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah were oppressed together. And all who captured them held them fast; they refused to let them go.

Set apart a fast; call a solemn gathering; gather the elders and all the people of the land into the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to the Lord,

Blow a trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn gathering.

Then the seamen were afraid, and each man cried to his god. And they threw out the ship's articles in the ship, into the sea in order to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship; and he lay there, and was fast asleep.

And the people of Nineveh believed God. And they called a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?

So says Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

And when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, of a sad face. For they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to fast. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

so that you do not appear to men to fast, but to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.

Then the disciples of John came to Him saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?

And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

The disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting. And they came and said to Him, Why do John's disciples and those of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?

And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days.

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.

And they said to Him, Why do John's disciples fast often and make prayers, and also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?

But He said to them, Can you make the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them?

But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days.

I fast twice on the Sabbath, I give tithes of all that I possess.

Jesus said to them, Come, break fast. And none of the disciples dared to ask Him, Who are You? knowing that it was the Lord.

Then when they broke fast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.

who, having received such a command, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.

And much time having been used up, and the voyage already being dangerous, because the Fast was now already past, Paul warned them,

And coming on a place between two seas, they drove the vessel. And indeed the prow sticking fast, it remained unmovable. But the stern was broken with the violence of the waves.

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

Watch! Stand fast in the faith! Be men! Be strong!

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

Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

Therefore, my brothers, ones loved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand fast in this way in the Lord, beloved ones.

for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

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

holding fast the faithful Word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.

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.

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.

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

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 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.