'Persist' in the Bible
But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away."
His ways prosper at all times;Your judgments [Lord] are on high, out of his sight [so he never thinks about them];As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.
Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion.
Do not be in a hurry; leave his presence, and don’t persist in a bad cause, since he will do whatever he wants.
Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful -- maybe you will scare away disaster.
will he hold on to his anger forever, will he persist in his wrath to the end?' Look, you have spoken and done evil things, and you have succeeded in it."
I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, "I have done wrong!" All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle.
Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them: "Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!"
To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater?
If the Jews do not persist in their unbelief, they will be grafted in again, because God is able to graft them in.
Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.
But I will persist in the same line of conduct in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who desire an opportunity of getting themselves recognized as being on a level with us in the matters about which they boast.
As for those [elders] who continue in sin, reprimand them in the presence of all [the congregation], so that the rest will be warned.
Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching.
For if we wilfully persist in sin after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains in reserve any other sacrifice for sins.
For this reason I shall always persist in reminding you of these things, although you know them and are stedfast believers in truth which you already possess.