'Stay' in the Bible

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him."

Whenever you enter a town or village, find out who is worthy there and stay with them until you leave.

"Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Then he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me."

Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, "So, couldn't you stay awake with me for one hour?

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the area.

Watch out! Stay alert! For you do not know when the time will come.

It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves in charge, assigning to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.

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 --

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

He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay alert."

Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you stay awake for one hour?

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave the area.

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today."

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

but they urged him, "Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done." So he went in to stay with them.

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

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.

So in this case I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking originates with people, it will come to nothing,

So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, "If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house." And she persuaded us.

When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent,

Some of the disciples from Caesarea came along with us too, and brought us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple from the earliest times, with whom we were to stay.

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved."

There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.

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

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.

Stay away from every form of evil.

As I urged you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to spread false teachings,

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.