8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 15:2 — By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
• 1Thess 5:21 — Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
• 1Thess 5:21 — Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
• 2Tim 1:13 — Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• Acts 2:42 — And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
• Acts 11:23 — Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
• Deut 32:47 — For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
• Eccl 7:12 — For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
• Gen 32:26 — And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
• Heb 2:1 — Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
• Heb 6:18 — That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
• Isa 56:2 — Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
• Job 27:6 — My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
• John 6:68 — Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• Luke 24:27 — And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
• Prov 3:18 — She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
• Prov 3:22 — So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
• Prov 6:23 — For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
• Prov 7:2 — Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
• Prov 10:17 — He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
• Prov 23:23 — Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
• Rev 2:13 — I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was s
• Rev 12:11 — And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• Song 3:4 — It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that
• Song 3:4 — It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that