| Job 2:9 | Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. |
| Proverbs 4:4 | He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. |
| Proverbs 11:16 | A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong [men] retain riches. |
| Ecclesiastes 8:8 | [There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. |
| Daniel 11:6 | And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in [these] times. |
| John 20:23 | Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained. |
| Romans 1:28 | And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; |