'Continue' in the Bible
When the days grew closer for Jesus to be taken up to heaven, he was determined to continue his journey to Jerusalem.
So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.
I made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for me may be in them and I myself may be in them."
When the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who kept talking to them and urging them to continue in the grace of God.
strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. "We must endure many hardships," they said, "to get into the kingdom of God."
I'll continue to rescue you from your people and from the gentiles to whom I'm sending you.
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.
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
Consider, then, the kindness and severity of God: his severity toward those who fell, but God's kindness toward you if you continue receiving his kindness. Otherwise, you too will be cut off.
He has rescued us from a terrible death, and he will continue to rescue us. Yes, he is the one on whom we have set our hope, and he will rescue us again,
We are not boasting about work done by others that cannot be evaluated. On the contrary, we cherish the hope that your faith may continue to grow and enlarge our sphere of action among you until it overflows.
When I was with you and needed something, I did not bother any of you, because our brothers who came from Macedonia supplied everything I needed. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.
Finally, brothers, goodbye. Keep on growing to maturity. Keep listening to my appeals. Continue agreeing with each other and living in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.
But so what? Just this that in every way, whether by false or true motives, the Messiah is being proclaimed. Because of this, I rejoice and will continue to rejoice.
Now if I continue living, fruitful labor is the result, so I do not know which I would prefer.
Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will continue to live and be with all of you, so you will mature in the faith and know joy in it.
The only thing that matters is that you continue to live as good citizens in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Messiah. Then, whether I come to see you or whether I stay away, I may hear all about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, struggling with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah
So then, just as you have received the Messiah Jesus the Lord, continue to live dependent on him.
For you have been rooted in him and are being built up and strengthened in the faith, just as you were taught, while you continue to be thankful.
For now we can go on living, as long as you continue to stand firm in the Lord.
The one who calls you is faithful, and he will continue to be faithful.
We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.
Timothy, my child, I am instructing you in keeping with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may continue to fight the good fight
even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.
If you continue to point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of the Messiah Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the healthy teaching that you have followed closely.
Continue to give these instructions, so that they may be blameless.
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it.
Instead, continue to encourage one another every day, as long as it is called "Today," so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin,
Therefore, leaving behind the elementary teachings about the Messiah, let us continue to be carried along to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead actions, faith toward God,
and who have fallen away, as long as they continue to crucify the Son of God to their own detriment by exposing him to public ridicule.
For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have ministered to the saints and continue to minister to them.
But we want each of you to continue to be diligent to the very end, in order to give full assurance to your hope.
let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in the full assurance that faith provides, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
Let us continue to hold firmly to the hope that we confess without wavering, for the one who made the promise is faithful.
And let us continue to consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds,
But you must continue to remember those earlier days, how after you were enlightened you endured a hard and painful struggle.
Continue to remember those in prison as if you were in prison with them, as well as those who are mistreated, since they also are only mortal.
Continue to follow and be submissive to your leaders, since they are watching over your souls as those who will have to give a word of explanation. By doing this, you will be letting them carry out their duties joyfully, and not with grief, for that would be harmful for you.
Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.
Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.
So then, those who suffer according to God's will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do what is good.
For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
Instead, continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah. Glory belongs to him both now and on that eternal day! Amen.
Dear lady, I am now requesting of you that we all continue to love one another. It is not as though I am writing to give you a new commandment, but one that we have had from the beginning.
Dear friends, although I was eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write to you and urge you to continue your vigorous defense of the faith that was passed down to the saints once and for all.
But you, dear friends, must continue to build your most holy faith for your own benefit. Furthermore, continue to pray in the Holy Spirit.
Let the one who does what is evil continue to do what is evil. Let the filthy person continue to be filthy. Let the righteous person continue to do what is right. And let the holy person continue to be holy."