16 Bible Verses about Grasping

Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--"

Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.

But the LORD said to Moses, "Put out your hand and catch it by the tail"--so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand--

"When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,

But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister."

And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."

Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"

But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.'

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.

he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.