Closer

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

Now the Philistine came closer and closer to David, with his shield-bearer before him.

Now the Philistine came closer and closer to David, with his shield-bearer before him.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.