'Remain' in the Bible
But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.
or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.
This is what I command in all the Churches. Was any one already circumcised when called? Let him not have recourse to the surgeons. Was any one uncircumcised when called? Let him remain uncircumcised.
I think then that, taking into consideration the distress which is now upon us, it is well for a man to remain as he is.
And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.
For I do not wish to see you on this occasion merely in passing; but if the Lord permits, I hope to remain some time with you.
I shall remain in Ephesus, however, until the time of the Harvest Festival,