'Occupy' in the Bible

and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues and at dinner parties,

and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.

And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.

"Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;

to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

or service, let us occupy ourselves in service; or he that teaches, in teaching;

He is also the head [the life-source and leader] of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will occupy the first place [He will stand supreme and be preeminent] in everything.

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God's redemptive plan that operates by faith.

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,

Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all.

Little children (believers, dear ones), guard yourselves from idols—[false teachings, moral compromises, and anything that would take God’s place in your heart].