16 Bible Verses about Grasping

Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister!"

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will 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.'"

"But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.