'Maintain' in the Bible

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

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

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.

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,