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It appears in both literal and metaphorical senses throughout the Scriptures, reflecting themes of liberation, forgiveness, and the breaking of bonds.<br><br>1. <b>Literal Usage</b>: In its literal sense, "loose" refers to the physical act of untying or releasing something. For example, in the account of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, He commands, "Unbind him and let him go" (<a href="/john/11-44.htm">John 11:44</a>). This command to "unbind" or "loose" Lazarus from his grave clothes signifies the physical release from the bonds of death.<br><br>2. <b>Spiritual and Metaphorical Usage</b>: The term is also used metaphorically to describe spiritual liberation. In <a href="/matthew/16-19.htm">Matthew 16:19</a>, Jesus tells Peter, "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven" . Here, "loose" refers to the authority given to the apostles to release individuals from the bondage of sin through the proclamation of the Gospel and the administration of church discipline.<br><br>3. <b>Forgiveness and Reconciliation</b>: The concept of loosing is closely tied to forgiveness. In <a href="/matthew/18-18.htm">Matthew 18:18</a>, Jesus reiterates the authority to bind and loose, emphasizing the role of the church in forgiving sins and restoring relationships. This reflects the broader biblical theme of reconciliation and the power of forgiveness to release individuals from the spiritual consequences of sin.<br><br>4. <b>Prophetic and Eschatological Contexts</b>: In prophetic literature, "loose" can signify the release of divine judgment or blessing. For instance, in <a href="/revelation/9-14.htm">Revelation 9:14</a>, a voice commands, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates" . This loosing of angels is part of the unfolding of God's eschatological plan, demonstrating His sovereign control over the events of the end times.<br><br>5. <b>Old Testament References</b>: In the Old Testament, the concept of loosing is often associated with deliverance and freedom. <a href="/isaiah/58-6.htm">Isaiah 58:6</a> speaks of God's desire to "loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke" . This passage highlights God's concern for justice and liberation, calling His people to participate in acts of mercy and compassion.<br><br>6. <b>Moral and Ethical Implications</b>: The act of loosing is not only a divine prerogative but also a moral imperative for believers. Christians are called to be agents of liberation, working to free others from physical, emotional, and spiritual bondage. This includes advocating for justice, offering forgiveness, and sharing the message of salvation through Christ.<br><br>In summary, the concept of "loose" in the Bible encompasses a range of meanings, from the physical act of untying to the profound spiritual act of forgiveness and liberation. It underscores the transformative power of God's grace and the responsibility of believers to participate in His redemptive work.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>superl.</I>) Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.<p>2. (<I>superl.</I>) Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.<p>3. (<I>superl.</I>) Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.<p>4. (<I>superl.</I>) Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.<p>5. (<I>superl.</I>) Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.<p>6. (<I>superl.</I>) Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.<p>7. (<I>superl.</I>) Unconnected; rambling.<p>8. (<I>superl.</I>) Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.<p>9. (<I>superl.</I>) Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.<p>10. (<I>superl.</I>) Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.<p>11. (<I>n.</I>) Freedom from restraint.<p>12. (<I>n.</I>) A letting go; discharge.<p>13. (<I>v.</I>) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.<p>14. (<I>v.</I>) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.<p>15. (<I>v.</I>) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.<p>16. (<I>v.</I>) To solve; to interpret.<p>17. (<I>v. i.</I>) To set sail.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/3089.htm"><span class="l">3089. luo -- to <b>loose</b>, to release, to dissolve</span></a> <br><b>...</b> to <b>loose</b>, to release, to dissolve. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: luo Phonetic<br> Spelling: (loo'-o) Short Definition: I <b>loose</b>, untie, release, destroy <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3089.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 9k</font><p><a href="/greek/1956.htm"><span class="l">1956. epiluo -- to <b>loose</b>, to solve</span></a> <br><b>...</b> to <b>loose</b>, to solve. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: epiluo Phonetic Spelling:<br> (ep-ee-loo'-o) Short Definition: I explain, interpret, decide Definition: I <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1956.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/1590.htm"><span class="l">1590. ekluo -- to <b>loose</b>, release, to grow weary</span></a> <br><b>...</b> to <b>loose</b>, release, to grow weary. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekluo Phonetic<br> Spelling: (ek-loo'-o) Short Definition: I am unstrung, become weak, fail <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1590.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/3886.htm"><span class="l">3886. paraluo -- to <b>loose</b> from the side</span></a> <br><b>...</b> to <b>loose</b> from the side. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: paraluo Phonetic Spelling:<br> (par-al-oo'-o) Short Definition: I relax, enfeeble Definition: I relax <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3886.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/630.htm"><span class="l">630. apoluo -- to set free, release</span></a> <br><b>...</b> depart. 630 (from 575 , "away from" and 3089 , "to <b>loose</b>, release") -- properly,<br> to let go; release (discharge), dismiss. This term <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/630.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 10k</font><p><a href="/greek/811.htm"><span class="l">811. asotos -- wastefully</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Cognate: 811 (akin to , "a prodigal") -- because of "<b>loose</b> living," ie a debauched,<br> profligate lifestyle (used only in Lk 15:13). See 810 (). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/811.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/4746.htm"><span class="l">4746. stoibas -- branch.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> From a primary steibo (to "step" or "stamp"); a spread (as if tramped flat) of <b>loose</b><br> materials for a couch, ie (by implication) a bough of a tree so employed <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4746.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p><a href="/greek/321.htm"><span class="l">321. anago -- to lead up, bring up</span></a> <br><b>...</b> and ago; to lead up; by extension to bring out; specially, to sail away -- bring<br> (again, forth, up again), depart, launch (forth), lead (up), <b>loose</b>, offer, sail <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/321.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/447.htm"><span class="l">447. aniemi -- to send up, produce, send back</span></a> <br><b>...</b> forbear, give up, loosen. From ana and hiemi (to send); to let up, ie (literally)<br> slacken or (figuratively) desert, desist from -- forbear, leave, <b>loose</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/447.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/4014.htm"><span class="l">4014. periaireo -- to take away (that which surrounds)</span></a> <br><b>...</b> per-ee-ahee-reh'-o) Short Definition: I strip off, cast off Definition: (a) I strip<br> off, strip from, take away, (b) I cast off, cut adrift, cast <b>loose</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4014.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/8281.htm"><span class="l">8281. sharah -- to let <b>loose</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 8280, 8281. sharah. 8282 . to let <b>loose</b>. Transliteration: sharah Phonetic Spelling:<br> (shaw-raw') Short Definition: <b>loose</b>. Word Origin a prim. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/8281.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5425b.htm"><span class="l">5425b. nathar -- to be free or <b>loose</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 5425a, 5425b. nathar. 5426 . to be free or <b>loose</b>. Transliteration: nathar<br> Short Definition: sets. Word Origin a prim. root Definition <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5425b.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5800a.htm"><span class="l">5800a. azab -- to leave, forsake, <b>loose</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 5800, 5800a. azab. 5800b . to leave, forsake, <b>loose</b>. Transliteration:<br> azab Short Definition: forsaken. Word Origin a prim. root <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5800a.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5800.htm"><span class="l">5800. azab -- to leave, forsake, <b>loose</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 5799, 5800. azab. 5800a . to leave, forsake, <b>loose</b>. Transliteration: azab<br> Phonetic Spelling: (aw-zab') Short Definition: self. commit <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5800.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7971.htm"><span class="l">7971. shalach -- to send</span></a><br><b>...</b> me go (4), let my go (11), let my go free (1), let out freely (1), let the go (8),<br> let them down (1), let them go (6), let you go (7), let your <b>loose</b> (1), let <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7971.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2118.htm"><span class="l">2118. zachach -- to remove, displace</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2117, 2118. zachach. 2119 . to remove, displace. Transliteration: zachach Phonetic<br> Spelling: (zaw-khakh') Short Definition: <b>loose</b>. Word Origin a prim. <b>...</b> <b>loose</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2118.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2502.htm"><span class="l">2502. chalats -- to draw off or out, withdraw</span></a><br><b>...</b> arm self, go, ready armed man, soldier, deliver, draw out, make fat, <b>loose</b>,<br> A primitive root; to pull off; hence (intensively) to <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2502.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6605.htm"><span class="l">6605. pathach -- to open</span></a><br><b>...</b> appear, break forth, draw out, let go free, engrave, <b>loose</b> self, be, be<br> set opening, A primitive root; to open wide (literally or <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6605.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5203.htm"><span class="l">5203. natash -- to leave, forsake, permit</span></a><br><b>...</b> cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join battle, leave off, lie still,<br> <b>loose</b>,. A primitive root; properly, to pound, ie Smite; by <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5203.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/8271.htm"><span class="l">8271. shera -- to loosen, abide</span></a><br><b>...</b> solve (1), solving (1), went slack (1). begin, dissolve, dwell, <b>loose</b>.<br> (Aramaic) a root corresponding to that of sheruwth; to free <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/8271.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_priest_can_bind_2.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Priest Can Bind and <b>Loose</b> According to his Own <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF THE EFFECT OF THE KEYS (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether the priest can bind and<br> <b>loose</b> according to his own judgment? Objection 1: It seems <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the priest can bind 2.htm</font><p><a href="/library/tertullian/the_prescription_against_heretics/chapter_xliii_loose_company_preferred_by.htm"><span class="l"><b>Loose</b> Company Preferred by Heretics Ungodliness the Effect of <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter XLIII."<b>Loose</b> Company Preferred by Heretics Ungodliness the Effect of Their<br> Teaching the Very Opposite of Catholic Truth, Which Promotes the Fear of <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the prescription against heretics/chapter xliii loose company preferred by.htm</font><p><a href="/library/ephraim/hymns_and_homilies_of_ephraim_the_syrian/hymn_xxi_john_who_was.htm"><span class="l">John who was a Torch, Laid Bare and Rebuked the Wanton Ones: they <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> John who was a torch, laid bare and rebuked the wanton ones: they made haste and<br> quenched the torch, that they might let <b>loose</b> the desire of their lust. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn xxi john who was.htm</font><p><a href="/library/schaff/the_seven_ecumenical_councils/canon_cii_it_behoves_those.htm"><span class="l">Canon Cii. It Behoves those who have Received from God the Power <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> The Sixth Ecumenical Council. Canon CII. It behoves those who have received<br> from God the power to <b>loose</b> and bind? It behoves those <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon cii it behoves those.htm</font><p><a href="/library/origen/origens_commentary_on_the_gospel_of_john/19_luke_and_john_suggest.htm"><span class="l">Luke and John Suggest that one May <b>Loose</b> the Shoe-Latchets of the <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Sixth Book. 19. Luke and John Suggest that One May <b>Loose</b> the Shoe-Latchets<br> of the Logos Without Stooping Down. We must not, however <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/19 luke and john suggest.htm</font><p><a href="/library/borthwick/hymns_from_the_land_of_luther/the_desired_haven.htm"><span class="l">The Desired Haven.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Now the sailing orders in mercy, Lord, bestow". <b>Loose</b> the cable, let me go! <b>...</b> Enemies<br> around me, gloomy depths below. <b>Loose</b> the cable, let me go! <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../borthwick/hymns from the land of luther/the desired haven.htm</font><p><a href="/library/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/cv_jesus_triumphal_entry_into.htm"><span class="l">Jesus' Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> against you, ^b and straightway as ye enter into it, ^a ye shall find an ass tied,<br> and a colt ^b tied, ^a with her: ^b whereon no man ever sat; <b>loose</b> him, { ^a <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/cv jesus triumphal entry into.htm</font><p><a href="/library/origen/origens_commentary_on_the_gospel_of_john/15_discrepancy_of_the_gospel.htm"><span class="l">Discrepancy of the Gospel Narratives Connected with the Cleansing <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go ye into the village over against you, and<br> straightway ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with her; <b>loose</b> them and <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../origens commentary on the gospel of john/15 discrepancy of the gospel.htm</font><p><a href="/library/mede/a_key_to_the_apocalypse/the_vision_.htm"><span class="l">The vision</span></a> <br><b>...</b> world they were about to issue forth, were to be restrained as long as it pleased<br> God; but at his nod, whenever he gave the signal, were to be let <b>loose</b> on the <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/mede/a key to the apocalypse/the vision .htm</font><p><a href="/library/baker/holy_wisdom_or_directions_for_the_prayer_of_contemplation/chapter_viii_superiors_ought_carefully.htm"><span class="l">Superiors Ought Carefully to Examine the Dispositions of those <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> religion. Sec. Sec. 2, 3. Great danger to communities from <b>loose</b> spirit.<br> Sec. Sec. 4, 5. Other ill qualities to be avoided. Sec. Sec. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../chapter viii superiors ought carefully.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/l/loose.htm"><span class="l"><b>Loose</b> (219 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (superl.) Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached,<br> fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the <b>loose</b> sheets of a book. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/loose.htm - 38k</font><p><a href="/topical/n/naked.htm"><span class="l">Naked (56 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 7; James 2:15). It denotes also (3) the state of one who has laid aside<br> his <b>loose</b> outer garment (Lat. nudus), and appears clothed <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/n/naked.htm - 29k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/slip.htm"><span class="l">Slip (22 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> secretly. 7. (vt) To omit; to <b>loose</b> by negligence. 8. (vt <b>...</b> or paper. 9. (vt)<br> To let <b>loose</b> in pursuit of game, as a greyhound. 10. (vt <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/slip.htm - 16k</font><p><a href="/topical/l/loosed.htm"><span class="l">Loosed (41 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (imp. & pp) of <b>Loose</b>. <b>...</b> John 20:23 if of any ye may <b>loose</b> the sins, they are loosed<br> to them; if of any ye may retain, they have been retained.' (YLT). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/loosed.htm - 19k</font><p><a href="/topical/l/letting.htm"><span class="l">Letting (41 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (See NAS). Leviticus 19:29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become<br> a <b>loose</b> woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame. (BBE). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/letting.htm - 19k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/cord.htm"><span class="l">Cord (47 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Go into the little town in front of you, and straight away you will see an ass with<br> a cord round her neck, and a young one with her; let them <b>loose</b> and come <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/cord.htm - 27k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/pictured.htm"><span class="l">Pictured (26 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (BBE). Ezekiel 23:14 And her <b>loose</b> behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured<br> on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red, (BBE). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/pictured.htm - 15k</font><p><a href="/topical/u/unkempt.htm"><span class="l">Unkempt (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Leviticus 10:6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons,<br> "Don't let the hair of your heads go <b>loose</b>, neither tear your clothes; that you <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/u/unkempt.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/l/lets.htm"><span class="l">Lets (31 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Exodus 22:5 "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal<br><b>loose</b>, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/lets.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/l/loosen.htm"><span class="l">Loosen (8 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1. (vt) To make <b>loose</b>; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness;<br> to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/l/loosen.htm - 9k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/lose-the-Holy-Spirit.html">Can you lose the Holy Spirit? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-lose-salvation.html">Can a Christian lose salvation? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/gain-world-lose-soul.html">What does it mean to gain the whole world but lose your soul? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/loose.htm">Loose: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Loose (219 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/5-19.htm">Matthew 5:19</a></span><br />Whoever therefore may <span class="boldtext">loose</span> one of these commands -- the least -- and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach 'them', he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/16-19.htm">Matthew 16:19</a></span><br />And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt <span class="boldtext">loose</span> on earth shall be loosed in heaven. <br /><span class="source">(KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/18-18.htm">Matthew 18:18</a></span><br />Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall <span class="boldtext">loose</span> on earth shall be loosed in heaven.<br /><span class="source">(KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/21-2.htm">Matthew 21:2</a></span><br />Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: <span class="boldtext">loose</span> them, and bring them unto me.<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/21-31.htm">Matthew 21:31</a></span><br />Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and <span class="boldtext">loose</span> women are going into the kingdom of God before you.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/21-32.htm">Matthew 21:32</a></span><br />For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the <span class="boldtext">loose</span> women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/1-7.htm">Mark 1:7</a></span><br />He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/7-35.htm">Mark 7:35</a></span><br />And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.<br /><span class="source">(Root in KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/11-2.htm">Mark 11:2</a></span><br />And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; <span class="boldtext">loose</span> him, and bring him.<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/11-4.htm">Mark 11:4</a></span><br />And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they <span class="boldtext">loose</span> him.<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/3-16.htm">Luke 3:16</a></span><br />John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/13-15.htm">Luke 13:15</a></span><br />The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath <span class="boldtext">loose</span> his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/15-4.htm">Luke 15:4</a></span><br />What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets <span class="boldtext">loose</span> and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/15-13.htm">Luke 15:13</a></span><br />Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/19-30.htm">Luke 19:30</a></span><br />Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: <span class="boldtext">loose</span> him, and bring him hither.<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/19-31.htm">Luke 19:31</a></span><br />And if any man ask you, Why do ye <span class="boldtext">loose</span> him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/19-33.htm">Luke 19:33</a></span><br />And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why <span class="boldtext">loose</span> ye the colt?<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/john/1-27.htm">John 1:27</a></span><br />He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/john/11-44.htm">John 11:44</a></span><br />And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, <span class="boldtext">Loose</span> him, and let him go.<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/john/20-23.htm">John 20:23</a></span><br />if of any ye may <span class="boldtext">loose</span> the sins, they are loosed to them; if of any ye may retain, they have been retained.'<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/7-33.htm">Acts 7:33</a></span><br />And the Lord said unto him, <span class="boldtext">Loose</span> the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.<br /><span class="source">(ASV DBY YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/13-25.htm">Acts 13:25</a></span><br />And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to <span class="boldtext">loose</span>.<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/16-26.htm">Acts 16:26</a></span><br />Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/22-30.htm">Acts 22:30</a></span><br />On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.<br /><span class="source">(Root in KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/24-26.htm">Acts 24:26</a></span><br />He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might <span class="boldtext">loose</span> him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.<br /><span class="source">(KJV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/27-40.htm">Acts 27:40</a></span><br />And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.<br /><span class="source">(Root in KJV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-15.htm">1 Corinthians 6:15</a></span><br />Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman? such a thing may not be. <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-16.htm">1 Corinthians 6:16</a></span><br />Or do you not see that he who is joined to a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_timothy/1-10.htm">1 Timothy 1:10</a></span><br />For those who go after <span class="boldtext">loose</span> women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/titus/1-6.htm">Titus 1:6</a></span><br />if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of <span class="boldtext">loose</span> or unruly behavior.<br /><span class="source">(WEB BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hebrews/11-31.htm">Hebrews 11:31</a></span><br />By faith Rahab, the <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman, was not put to death with those who had gone against God's orders, because she had taken into her house in peace those sent to see the land.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/james/2-25.htm">James 2:25</a></span><br />And in the same way, was not the righteousness of Rahab, the <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman, judged by her works, when she took into her house those who were sent and let them go out by another way?<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_peter/4-3.htm">1 Peter 4:3</a></span><br />Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and <span class="boldtext">loose</span> behaviour and unclean worship of images;<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm">2 Peter 2:5</a></span><br />And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> the waters over the world of the evil-doers;<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/5-2.htm">Revelation 5:2</a></span><br />And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to <span class="boldtext">loose</span> the seals thereof?<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/5-5.htm">Revelation 5:5</a></span><br />And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to <span class="boldtext">loose</span> the seven seals thereof.<br /><span class="source">(KJV WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/9-14.htm">Revelation 9:14</a></span><br />Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, <span class="boldtext">Loose</span> the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.<br /><span class="source">(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/20-3.htm">Revelation 20:3</a></span><br />And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.<br /><span class="source">(Root in KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/20-7.htm">Revelation 20:7</a></span><br />And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,<br /><span class="source">(Root in KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/27-40.htm">Genesis 27:40</a></span><br />By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break <span class="boldtext">loose</span>, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/34-31.htm">Genesis 34:31</a></span><br />But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman?<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/38-15.htm">Genesis 38:15</a></span><br />When Judah saw her he took her to be a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman of the town, because her face was covered.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/38-21.htm">Genesis 38:21</a></span><br />And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/38-24.htm">Genesis 38:24</a></span><br />Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/49-21.htm">Genesis 49:21</a></span><br />Naphtali is a hind let <span class="boldtext">loose</span>: he giveth goodly words. <br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/3-5.htm">Exodus 3:5</a></span><br />And he said, Draw not nigh hither: <span class="boldtext">loose</span> thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/5-4.htm">Exodus 5:4</a></span><br />And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, <span class="boldtext">loose</span> the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. <br /><span class="source">(ASV JPS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/22-5.htm">Exodus 22:5</a></span><br />"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal <span class="boldtext">loose</span>, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/28-28.htm">Exodus 28:28</a></span><br />And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.<br /><span class="source">(Root in KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/32-25.htm">Exodus 32:25</a></span><br />When Moses saw that the people had broken <span class="boldtext">loose</span>, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV BBE RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/39-21.htm">Exodus 39:21</a></span><br />They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come <span class="boldtext">loose</span> from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/10-6.htm">Leviticus 10:6</a></span><br />Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go <span class="boldtext">loose</span>, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV BBE RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/13-45.htm">Leviticus 13:45</a></span><br />"The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang <span class="boldtext">loose</span>. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry,'Unclean! Unclean!'<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV BBE RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/14-7.htm">Leviticus 14:7</a></span><br />And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird <span class="boldtext">loose</span> into the open field.<br /><span class="source">(KJV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/14-53.htm">Leviticus 14:53</a></span><br />and he shall let the living bird <span class="boldtext">loose</span> out of the city into the open field; and he shall make atonement for the house, and it is clean.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/19-29.htm">Leviticus 19:29</a></span><br />Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/21-7.htm">Leviticus 21:7</a></span><br />They may not take as wife a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/21-9.htm">Leviticus 21:9</a></span><br />And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her <span class="boldtext">loose</span> behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/21-10.htm">Leviticus 21:10</a></span><br />"'He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang <span class="boldtext">loose</span>, nor tear his clothes;<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV BBE RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm">Leviticus 21:14</a></span><br />A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of <span class="boldtext">loose</span> behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/26-22.htm">Leviticus 26:22</a></span><br />I will let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/5-18.htm">Numbers 5:18</a></span><br />The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go <span class="boldtext">loose</span>, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-17.htm">Deuteronomy 23:17</a></span><br />No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/23-18.htm">Deuteronomy 23:18</a></span><br />Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-9.htm">Deuteronomy 25:9</a></span><br />then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and <span class="boldtext">loose</span> his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/2-1.htm">Joshua 2:1</a></span><br />Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/5-15.htm">Joshua 5:15</a></span><br />And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, <span class="boldtext">Loose</span> thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.<br /><span class="source">(KJV DBY WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/6-17.htm">Joshua 6:17</a></span><br />And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/6-22.htm">Joshua 6:22</a></span><br />Then Joshua said to the two men who had been sent to make a search through the land, Go into the house of the <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman, and get her out, and all who are with her, as you gave her your oath.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/6-25.htm">Joshua 6:25</a></span><br />But Joshua kept Rahab, the <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman, and her father's family and all she had, from death, and so she got a living-place among the children of Israel to this day; because she kept safe the men whom Joshua had sent to make a search through the land.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/joshua/22-18.htm">Joshua 22:18</a></span><br />That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> on all the people of Israel.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/11-1.htm">Judges 11:1</a></span><br />Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman, and Gilead was his father.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/15-5.htm">Judges 15:5</a></span><br />Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes <span class="boldtext">loose</span> among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/16-1.htm">Judges 16:1</a></span><br />Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a <span class="boldtext">loose</span> woman and went in to her.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/16-3.htm">Judges 16:3</a></span><br />Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/21-15.htm">Judges 21:15</a></span><br />And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath <span class="boldtext">loose</span> on the tribes of Israel.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_samuel/20-36.htm">1 Samuel 20:36</a></span><br />And he said to the boy, Go and get the arrow I let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> from my bow. And while the boy was running, he sent an arrow past him.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_kings/3-16.htm">1 Kings 3:16</a></span><br />Then two <span class="boldtext">loose</span> women of the town came and took their places before the king; <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_kings/22-38.htm">1 Kings 22:38</a></span><br />And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the <span class="boldtext">loose</span> women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/12-7.htm">2 Chronicles 12:7</a></span><br />And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-21.htm">2 Chronicles 34:21</a></span><br />Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-25.htm">2 Chronicles 34:25</a></span><br />Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> on this place and will not be put out.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/6-9.htm">Job 6:9</a></span><br />even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> his hand, and cut me off!<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/10-17.htm">Job 10:17</a></span><br />That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting <span class="boldtext">loose</span> new armies on me.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/12-14.htm">Job 12:14</a></span><br />Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him <span class="boldtext">loose</span>.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/12-15.htm">Job 12:15</a></span><br />Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/30-11.htm">Job 30:11</a></span><br />Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.<br /><span class="source">(Root in KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/37-3.htm">Job 37:3</a></span><br />He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/38-31.htm">Job 38:31</a></span><br />"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/39-3.htm">Job 39:3</a></span><br />They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> the fruit of their body.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/39-5.htm">Job 39:5</a></span><br />"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/30-11.htm">Psalms 30:11</a></span><br />Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; <br /><span class="source">(ASV DBY JPS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/50-19.htm">Psalms 50:19</a></span><br />Thou lettest thy mouth <span class="boldtext">loose</span> to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit; <br /><span class="source">(DBY JPS NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/64-4.htm">Psalms 64:4</a></span><br />So that in secret they may let <span class="boldtext">loose</span> their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/78-49.htm">Psalms 78:49</a></span><br />He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting <span class="boldtext">loose</span> evil angels among them.<br /><span class="source">(BBE RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/102-20.htm">Psalms 102:20</a></span><br />To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to <span class="boldtext">loose</span> those that are appointed to death; <br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/2-16.htm">Proverbs 2:16</a></span><br />To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/5-3.htm">Proverbs 5:3</a></span><br />For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm">Proverbs 5:20</a></span><br />Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/6-14.htm">Proverbs 6:14</a></span><br />His mind is ever designing evil: he lets <span class="boldtext">loose</span> violent acts. <br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><a href="/concordance/l/loose2.htm"></a><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/l/loose.htm">Loose</a></p><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related Terms</div><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/o/over-against.htm">Over-against (156 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/l/loose.htm">Loose (219 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/k/keys.htm">Keys (2 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/l/loosened.htm">Loosened (6 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/w/whatsoever.htm">Whatsoever (167 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a href="/topical/t/thread.htm">Thread (32 Occurrences)</a></p><p class="pspc2"><a 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