'Continue' in the Bible

And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.

since all have sinned and continue to fall short of God's glory.

Not only that, but we also continue to boast about God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom we have now been reconciled.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Do not go on offering members of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness. But offer yourselves to God [in a decisive act] as those alive [raised] from the dead [to a new life], and your members [all of your abilities—sanctified, set apart] as instruments of righteousness [yielded] to God.

Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.