'Maintain' in the Bible

He also said to them, “You completely invalidate God’s command in order to maintain your tradition!

These facts, then, being unquestioned, it becomes you to maintain your self-control and not act recklessly.

For the Sadducees maintain that there is no resurrection, and neither angel nor spirit; but the Pharisees acknowledge the existence of both.

In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men.

since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them or perhaps maintain their innocence--

For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the actions prescribed by the Law.

and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.

I praise you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.

But what I am doing I will keep doing, [for I am determined to keep this independence] in order to cut off the claim of those who want an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things they brag about.

with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly striving to maintain,

Do your best to maintain the unity of the Spirit by means of the bond of peace.

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.

They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

My brethren, you must not make distinctions between one man and another while you are striving to maintain faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our glory.

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.