54 verses contain “cleave” (in the KJV: 54, in the BSB: 1) — showing 1–54
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,
The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay.
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Now when they fall, they will be granted a little help, but many will join them insincerely.
Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south.
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off as a testimony against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.’
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
A man leaveth his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaveth unto his wife.
When ye were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees.
Cleave unto him, and depart not away, that thou mayest be increased at thy last end.
Stand in the multitude of the elders; and cleave unto him that is wise.
All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like.
Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away: and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.