8 Bible Verses about Clinging To People

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

A man with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

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He became infatuated with Dinah, daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.

Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people, greatly amazed, ran toward them in what is called Solomon’s Colonnade.

For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations remaining among you, and if you intermarry or associate with them and they with you,

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.