'Cling' in the Bible

The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.

He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

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,

Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased—white as snow.

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

I will cling to my righteousness and never let it go.My conscience will not accuse me as long as I live!

For we have sunk down to the dust;our bodies cling to the ground.

I will not set anything worthless before my eyes.I hate the practice of transgression;it will not cling to me.

I cling to Your decrees;Lord, do not put me to shame.

I will put hooks in your jawsand make the fish of your streamscling to your scales.I will haul you upfrom the middle of your Nile,and all the fish of your streamswill cling to your scales.

Those who cling to worthless idolsforsake faithful love,

“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.”

Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good.