Embrace

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,

She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.

Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

…a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

But after he had pondered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to embrace Mary as your wife, for the One conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.