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What Does the Bible Say About Cords?

Here are 9 Bible verses about cords, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Ecclesiastes 4:12

    And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

    BSBAnd though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

  2. #2Hosea 11:4

    I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

    BSBI led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.

  3. #3John 2:15

    And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;

    BSBSo He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

  4. #4Psalms 140:5

    The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

    BSBThe proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

  5. #5Psalms 129:4

    The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

    BSBThe LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.

  6. #6Psalms 2:3

    Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

    BSB“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”

  7. #7Proverbs 5:22

    His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

    BSBThe iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

  8. #8Isaiah 54:2

    Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

    BSB“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.

  9. #9Isaiah 5:18

    Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

    BSBWoe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

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