'Continue' in the Bible
Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,
And [after] the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking to them [and] were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging [them] to continue in the faith and [saying], "Through many persecutions it is necessary [for] us to enter into the kingdom of God."
What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase?
See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God--if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.
And because I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,
Fix [your] attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for [by] doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
But you continue in [the things] which you have learned and are convinced [of], [because you] know from whom you learned [them],
they will perish, but you continue, and they will all become old like a garment,
not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took hold of them by my hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I disregarded them, says the Lord.