'Persists' in the Bible

Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him, and [if] he persists and says, '{I do not desire to} marry her'

So Yahweh {asked} Satan, "Have you {considered} my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness {even though} you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing."