'Continues' in the Bible

Nor do we boast beyond certain limits in the work done by others, but we hope that as your faith continues to grow, our work may be greatly expanded among you according to our limits,

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations --