'Continue' in the Bible

I will bring a bit of bread so that you may strengthen yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. Later, you can continue on.”“Yes,” they replied, “do as you have said.”

Laban asked, “What should I give you?”And Jacob said, “You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.

Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

“Don’t continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves.

She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 33 days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification.

But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstrual impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 66 days.

“If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among you, you are to support him as a foreigner or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.

Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.

The border will go down from Shepham to Riblah east of Ain. It will continue down and reach the eastern slope of the Sea of Chinnereth.

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their fathers.’

Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue ruling many years over Israel.

This is what you requested from the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!’

The officers will continue to address the army and say, ‘Is there any man who is afraid or cowardly? Let him leave and return home, so that his brothers’ hearts won’t melt like his own.’

“Be very strong and continue obeying all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you do not turn from it to the right or left

know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

However, if you continue to do what is evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

If I continue to live, treat me with the Lord’s faithful love, but if I die,

Now, please bless Your servant’s house so that it will continue before You forever. For You, Lord God, have spoken, and with Your blessing Your servant’s house will be blessed forever.

and because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

These nations feared the Lord but also served their idols. Their children and grandchildren continue doing as their fathers did until today.

I will establish a place for My people Israel and plant them, so that they may live there and not be disturbed again. Evildoers will not continue to oppress them as they formerly have

So now, You have been pleased to bless Your servant’s house that it may continue before You forever. For You, Lord, have blessed it, and it is blessed forever.

And because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the Lord filled God’s temple.

So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do.

What strength do I have that I should continue to hope?What is my future, that I should be patient?

Is there no end to your empty words?What provokes you that you continue testifying?

Bear with me while I speak;then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.

Why do the wicked continue to live,growing old and becoming powerful?

Will you continue on the ancient paththat wicked men have walked?

Should I continue to wait now that they are silent,now that they stand there and no longer answer?

He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,and I will continue to see the light.”

May he continue while the sun enduresand as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

His offspring will continue forever,his throne like the sun before Me,

I say: “My God, do not take mein the middle of my life!Your years continue through all generations.

In return for my love they accuse me,but I continue to pray.

Woe to Ariel, Ariel,the city where David camped!Continue year after year;let the festivals recur.

Keep your feet from going bareand your throat from thirst.But you say, “It’s hopeless;I love strangers,and I will continue to follow them.”

Then do you come and stand before Me in this house called by My name and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts’?

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

How long will this continue in the minds of the prophets prophesying lies, prophets of the deceit of their own minds?

When you offer your gifts, making your children pass through the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, house of Israel? As I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I will not be consulted by you!

Now they continue to sinand make themselves a cast image,idols skillfully made from their silver,all of them the work of craftsmen.People say about them,“Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.”

Then you will know that I sent you this decree so My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the Lord of Hosts.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

If we let Him continue in this way, everyone will believe in Him! Then the Romans will come and remove both our place and our nation.”

After the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to pass through many troubles on our way into the kingdom of God.”

When our days there were over, we left to continue our journey, while all of them, with their wives and children, escorted us out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach to pray,

What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?

But I will continue to do what I am doing, in order to deny the opportunity of those who want an opportunity to be regarded just as our equals in what they boast about.

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed.

Since I am persuaded of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,

Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,

For God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you showed for His name when you served the saints—and you continue to serve them.

not like the covenantthat I made with their ancestorson the day I took them by their handsto lead them out of the land of Egypt.I disregarded them, says the Lord,because they did not continue in My covenant.

Let brotherly love continue.

saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”