'Stay' in the Bible

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."

Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.

Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."

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.

He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there.

He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."

Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."

They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

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

Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me."

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"

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.

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.

When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.

Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."

where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.

When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.

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

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,