'Maintaining' in the Bible
maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion, and sin. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.
""Observe the Sabbath day, maintaining its holiness, just as the LORD your God commanded.
[So] know that Yahweh your God, he [is] God, the trustworthy God, maintaining his covenant and his loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.
The Jews also joined in the charge, maintaining that these were facts.
maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.
make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
maintaining faith and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;
maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these [people].
The Son is the radiance and only expression of the glory of [our awesome] God [reflecting God’s Shekinah glory, the Light-being, the brilliant light of the divine], and the exact representation and perfect imprint of His [Father’s] essence, and upholding and maintaining and propelling all things [the entire physical and spiritual universe] by His powerful word [carrying the universe along to its predetermined goal]. When He [Himself and no other] had [by offering Himself on the cross as a sacrifice for sin] accomplished purification from sins and established our freedom from guilt, He sat down [revealing His completed work] at the right hand of the Majesty on high [revealing His Divine authority],
maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.