But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

that it might seize the corners of the earth, ¹  and shake the wicked out of it?

A fool lets fly with all his temper, ¹  but a wise person keeps it back. ² 

My heart is crushed because my dear people ¹  are being crushed. ²  I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay. ³ 

He himself is before all things and all things are held together ¹  in him.

In the same way, there are also some among you who follow the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹ 

Then ¹  I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding ²  in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.

For, when I think ¹  about this, I am terrified ²  and my body feels a shudder. ³ 

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.

by holding on to ¹  the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

Compete well ¹  for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession ²  for ³  in the presence of many witnesses.

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one can take away ¹  your crown. ² 

¹ Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “Thus says the Lord, ²  the God of Israel, ‘Release ³  my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast ⁴  to me in the desert.’”

When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, ¹  Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of ²  the ark of God, ³  because the oxen stumbled.

I want ¹  to climb the palm tree, ²  and take hold of its fruit stalks. May your breasts be like the clusters of grapes, ³  and may the fragrance of your breath be like apricots! ⁴ 

For I am the Lord your God, the one who takes hold of your right hand, who says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’

He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

Therefore, brothers and sisters, ¹  stand firm and hold on to the traditions that we taught you, whether by speech or by letter. ² 

In this way they will save up ¹  a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation ²  for the future and so lay hold of ³  what is truly life.