83 occurrences in 12 translations

'Stay' in the Bible

After they were gone, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to destroy Him.”

Verse ConceptsFutureFugitivesAngel of the LordCommunicationSafetySpeech, DivineSuffering, Of Jesus ChristViolenceHeaven And AngelsVisions And Dreams In ScriptureProvincesStaying PutAttempts To Kill ChristGod AppearingTaking ChristImmigrantsreuniting

nor let him who is outside the city stay to pick up his outer garment.

Verse ConceptsCloaksOuter GarmentsNot going home directly

Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He asked Peter, “So, couldn’t you stay awake with Me one hour?

Verse ConceptsHourPainPrayerlessnessSleep, PhysicalUnreliabilityOverconfidenceOne HourChrist With His DisciplesStress And Hard Times

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGod's Deed RevealedTemporary Stay In The Wildernesslonliness

He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringBoatsPressingDisadvantages Of CrowdsDisciples' MovementsPreparing To Travel

It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert.

Verse ConceptsDoorkeepersHuman Authority, Nature OfMan Appointing

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return -- whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn --

Verse ConceptsHourLast ThingsNightCrowsSleep, Warnings AgainstMidnightDaybreakIgnorance Of Christ’s ReturnAt DaybreakThe Time UnknownAttitudes While Waiting For Second Coming

What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!"

Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow —to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessStaying Put

Then He came and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you sleeping?” He asked Peter. “Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?

Verse ConceptsHourPrayerlessnessSleep, PhysicalUnreliabilityOne Hour

When He got out on land, a demon-possessed man from the town met Him. For a long time he had worn no clothes and did not stay in a house but in the tombs.

Verse ConceptsLonelinessSpiritsNaked In PovertyMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimeThose DemonisedDemons

And the man from who the demons had gone out was begging him to stay with him, but he sent him away, saying,

Verse ConceptsChrist With People On Earth

When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today I must stay at your house.”

Verse ConceptsMan Going DownTodayHurrying Others OnStaying Temporarily

Then He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time [to another country].

Verse ConceptsOccupationsFortsAfter A Long TimeLeasingFarming

Now in the daytime Jesus was teaching in [the porches and courts of] the temple, but at night He would go out and spend the night on the mount that is called Olivet.

Verse ConceptsEveningUnceasingAlways Being ActiveChrist TeachingEvenings For Jesus And His Disciples

Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay there.

Verse ConceptsChrist's Earthly FamilySeveral DaysDisciples' MovementsHalf brothers

After this Jesus and His disciples went into Judaea; and there He made a stay in company with them and baptized.

Verse ConceptsBaptism Of The Holy SpiritChristian BaptismDisciples' MovementsBaptism

Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

Verse ConceptseagernessTwo DaysStaying Temporarily

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims' legs broken and the bodies taken down.

Verse ConceptsJews, TheLegsBones BrokenCrucifiedOthers CrucifiedPreparing FoodRules About CorpsesSabbath Observed

Jesus said to him, “If I want him to stay alive until I come [again], what is that to you? You follow Me!”

Verse ConceptsHow Disciples Are CalledThe I Will's of ChristUnrelated ThingsInstructions About FollowingWorrying About The Futurefollowing

So this word went out among the brothers that this disciple (John) was not going to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but only, “If I want him to stay alive until I come [again], what is that to you?”

Verse ConceptsRumoursNot DyingUnrelated ThingsMisunderstandingsDyingDiscipleshipDeath Of Loved OnePositive ThinkingSpreading The GospelJesus Deathrumors

And now, I tell you, stay away from these men and leave them alone. For if this plan or this work is of men, it will be overthrown;

Verse ConceptsGood Human AdviceLeave Them AloneMan's TeachingWork Ethicmovement

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.

Verse ConceptsSanctity Of LifeInfanticideOppressorsKilling Sons And DaughtersThe Death Of Babies

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.

Verse ConceptsBaptism, practice ofCommands, in NTHospitality, Examples OfChristian Baptism

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, exalted the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Examples Of God'sArm Of GodLeaving EgyptGod Multipling PeopleStrangers in israel

[However, Silas decided to stay there.]

And though they asked him to stay for a longer time, he declined,

Verse ConceptsStaying A Long Time

And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Task OfPaul, Life OfTravelMissionary WorkSpecific Cases Of Strengthening

During the stay of Apollos in Corinth, Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came to Ephesus, where he found a few disciples.

Verse ConceptsFindingRoadsflexibility

having made also three months' stay -- a counsel of the Jews having been against him -- being about to set forth to Syria, there came to him a resolution of returning through Macedonia.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesSeafaringSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfTrapTwo To Four MonthsIsrael Hardened

and during our somewhat lengthy stay a Prophet of the name of Agabus came down from Judaea.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us and brought us to Mnason, a Cypriot and an early disciple, with whom we were to stay.

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfIslandsflexibility

After a stay of eight or ten days in Jerusalem--not more--he went down to Caesarea; and the next day, taking his seat on the tribunal, he ordered Paul to be brought in.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTThe Next DayEight DaysJudgement Seat

and, during their rather long stay, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "whom Felix left a prisoner,

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”

Verse ConceptsStaying PutThose Not SavedBeing Savedsailingjumping

At the end of three months we set sail on a ship which had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers [Castor and Pollux] as its figurehead.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsConstellationsStarsMythologyShipsAlexandria The CityTwinsTwo To Four MonthsSea TravelTwin BrothersRelationships And Datingsailing

There we found believers and were invited to stay with them for seven days.And so we came to Rome.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofWeeksSeven Days

When we entered Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

Verse ConceptsArrestingempiresGuardsHousesIsolated Persons

Brothers, everyone should stay in the same condition in which he was called by God.

Verse ConceptsWork, And RedemptionConsider Your Call To Salvation

Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress: It is fine for a man to remain as he is.

Verse ConceptsCelibacyDistressGood ActivityStress And Hard TimesBeing Single

and will probably stay with you for a while or even spend the winter with you. Then you can send me on my way, wherever I decide to go.

Verse ConceptsWinterPeople Sending People

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeHope, Nature OfStaying A Long TimeTrusting God's Plan

We will not boast about what cannot be evaluated. Instead, we will stay within the field that God assigned us, so as to reach even you.

Verse ConceptsPaul's BoastingBoastinglimitationsmeasurement

But since to live means a longer stay on earth, that implies more labour for me--and not unsuccessful labour; and which I am to choose I cannot tell.

Verse ConceptsFruitful LabourSelf WorthWorthfruitfulness

But to stay on in the flesh [is] more necessary for your sake.

Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,

Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsExamples Of ConfidenceAbsenceRejoicingGrowth In GraceThe FaithYou Will Rejoice In Salvationpatientsjoyful

[and He will do this] if you continue in the faith, well-grounded and steadfast, and not shifting away from the [confident] hope [that is a result] of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which [gospel] I, Paul, was made a minister.

Verse ConceptsHope, of The SaintsHeraldHope, As ConfidenceInstabilityMinistry, Qualifications ForServanthood, In Life Of BelieversServants, Working Conditions OfThe Gospel PreachedThe Purity Of The GospelStanding FirmThe Gospel WorldwideThe Hope Of The GospelMoving OnKeeping FaithHope And FaithFaith Hope And LoveHaving FaithMinistrysteadfastmovementrealitytransitionChrist As An Object Of Hope

So when we could bear it no longer, we decided to stay on in Athens alone.

Verse ConceptsIsolated PersonsPeople Abandoning People

When I was on my way to Macedonia, I urged you to stay in Ephesus so that you could instruct certain people to stop teaching false doctrine

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toPaul, Life OfDiscipline Of The ChurchMisteaching

At the same time also, prepare a place for me to stay, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given back to you.

Verse ConceptsIntercessory PrayerPray For UsStaying TemporarilyPrivate RoomsGuest Rooms

The one who habitually keeps His commandments [obeying His word and following His precepts, abides and] remains in Him, and He in him. By this we know and have the proof that He [really] abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us [as a gift].

Verse ConceptsAbiding In ChristFellowship, With GodCommunicationGod, Present EverywhereGrace, And Holy SpiritUnion With Christ, Significance OfGift Of The Holy SpiritIndwelling Of ChristFellowship With ChristThe Witness Of The Holy SpiritObeying JesusUs In God

and they are seven kings: five of whom have fallen, one exists and is reigning; the other [the seventh] has not yet come, and when he does come, he must remain a little while.

Verse ConceptsSevenFive PeopleSeven PeopleA Short TimeShort Time For Actionspace

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