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In the context of biblical teachings, "staying" often refers to the act of remaining steadfast, abiding, or dwelling in a particular state, place, or relationship. This concept is deeply rooted in the Scriptures, emphasizing faithfulness, perseverance, and the importance of maintaining one's position in the faith and in God's presence.

Staying in God's Presence

The Bible frequently encourages believers to stay in the presence of God, highlighting the importance of a continuous and intimate relationship with Him. Psalm 91:1 states, "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty." This verse underscores the security and peace found in staying close to God, suggesting that those who remain in His presence are protected and blessed.

Staying Faithful

Staying faithful is a recurring theme throughout the Scriptures. In 1 Corinthians 15:58 , Paul exhorts the believers, "Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." Here, staying faithful is associated with being steadfast and immovable, qualities that are essential for a fruitful Christian life.

Staying in Christ

The New Testament frequently speaks of the importance of staying in Christ. In John 15:4 , Jesus instructs His disciples, "Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me." This metaphor of the vine and branches illustrates the necessity of staying connected to Christ to bear spiritual fruit and live a life pleasing to God.

Staying in the Word

Staying in the Word of God is vital for spiritual growth and discernment. Psalm 119:105 declares, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." This verse highlights the guiding and illuminating power of Scripture, encouraging believers to remain in the Word to navigate life's challenges and stay aligned with God's will.

Staying in Prayer

Prayer is another area where staying is emphasized. In 1 Thessalonians 5:17 , Paul advises, "Pray without ceasing." This call to persistent prayer reflects the importance of maintaining an ongoing dialogue with God, staying connected to Him through all circumstances.

Staying in Community

The early church exemplified the importance of staying in community. Acts 2:42 describes the believers as "devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer." This commitment to communal life and shared faith practices underscores the strength and encouragement found in staying connected with fellow believers.

Staying the Course

The concept of staying the course is integral to the Christian journey. Hebrews 12:1 encourages believers to "run with endurance the race set out for us," implying the need to stay focused and persistent in the faith. This perseverance is essential for overcoming trials and achieving the ultimate goal of eternal life with God.

In summary, the biblical concept of staying encompasses remaining in God's presence, staying faithful, abiding in Christ, staying in the Word and prayer, maintaining community, and persevering in the faith. These aspects collectively contribute to a robust and enduring Christian life.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stay.

Greek

1961. epimeno -- to stay on
... from epi and meno Definition to stay on NASB Word Usage continue (4), continued
(1), persevere (1), persisted (1), remain (4), stay (2), stayed (3), staying (1 ...
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69. agrupneo -- to be sleepless, wakeful
... 69 (from 1 , "not" and 5258 , "sleep") -- properly, no sleeping; (figuratively)
staying vigilant (alert, attentive), ie without any unnecessary "time off.". ...
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3115. makrothumia -- patience, long-suffering
... Indeed, only produces 3115 ("true patience, longsuffering") in us and hence is
(Gal 5:22). "3115 () embraces steadfastness and staying-power. ...
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1301. diatereo -- to keep carefully
... 1301 (from 1223 , "through, thoroughly," intensifying 5083 , "guard") -- properly,
keep () to ensure (staying for "successful final delivery"). ...
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3579. xenizo -- to receive as a guest, to surprise
... Word Origin from xenos Definition to receive as a guest, to surprise NASB Word Usage
entertained (2), gave...lodging (1), lodge (1), staying (3), strange ...
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63. agrauleo -- to live in the fields
... Word Origin from agros and aule Definition to live in the fields NASB Word Usage
staying out in the fields (1). live outdoors, abide in the field. ...
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3438. mone -- an abiding, an abode
... abode, mansion. From meno; a staying, ie Residence (the act or the place) -- abode,
mansion. see GREEK meno. (monai) -- 1 Occurrence. 3437, 3438. mone. 3439 ...
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3306. meno -- to stay, abide, remain
... 1), lasting (2), lives (1), living (1), remain (20), remained (6), remaining (1),
remains (8), stand (1), stay (11), stayed (11), staying (3), waiting (1). ...
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1304. diatribo -- to rub hard, rub away, to spend time
... dia and the same as tribos Definition to rub hard, rub away, to spend time NASB
Word Usage spending (1), spending time (2), spent (3), stayed (2), staying (1). ...
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430. anecho -- to hold up, bear with
... a process" and 2192, "to have") -- properly, " bearing " going through the needed
sequence ( of action); to ; for the believer, "staying " means living the ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5975. amad -- to take one's stand, stand
... sets (3), stand (121), stand still (1), standing (67), standing upright (2), stands
(15), station (1), stationed (8), stay (8), stayed (2), staying (1), stood ...
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3427. yashab -- to sit, remain, dwell
... 20), sits enthroned (1), sitting (48), sitting down (3), sitting still (1), situated
(1), spent (1), stand (1), stay (29), stayed (25), staying (6), stays (2 ...
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7931. shakan -- to settle down, abide, dwell
... remain (1), remained (2), remains (1), rest (1), rested (1), set (1), settle (2),
settled (3), settled down (2), stands (1), stationed (1), stay (1), staying (1 ...
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1481a. gur -- to sojourn
... live as aliens (2), lives (1), reside (13), resided (1), resides (3), sojourn (11),
sojourned (9), sojourning (1), sojourns (13), stay (6), staying (4), stays ...
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Library

Why Without, Then, Art Thou Staying?
... Advent. WHY WITHOUT, THEN, ART THOU STAYING? Why without, then, art Thou
staying, Blessed of the Lord from far? Enter now, no more ...
/.../gerhardt/paul gerhardts spiritual songs/why without then art thou.htm

Peter and the Roman Officer
... He is staying with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside." When the angel
who spoke to him had gone away, Cornelius called two of his household ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/peter and the roman officer.htm

"Thou Shall Keep Him in Perfect Peace, Whose Mind is Stayed on ...
... The fountain of it, the preserver of it, is God himself; the way to attain it, is
"trusting in God, and staying on him." This sweetness of peace is in God the ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xii thou shall keep.htm

Insensibility
... 3. Is your want of feeling a reason for your staying away from Christ? ... The blindness
of Bartimeus was his reason for coming to Christ, not for staying away. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bonar/gods way of peace/chapter xi insensibility.htm

The Foundation of the House of St. Joseph. The Observation of Holy ...
... 1. When I was staying with this lady, [1] already spoken of, in whose house I remained
more than six months, our Lord ordained that a holy woman [2] of our ...
/.../teresa/the life of st teresa of jesus/chapter xxxv the foundation of.htm

A Rest Here have I Never. --Ps. cxix.
... eternal live. While on the earth I'm staying, My life shall thus be spent,
I would not be delaying For aye in this strange tent. Along ...
/.../gerhardt/paul gerhardts spiritual songs/a rest here have i.htm

Following the Star.
... FOLLOWING THE STAR. While Joseph and Mary and the Holy Child were still staying
in Bethlehem, some Wise Men came from an Eastern country to Jerusalem, asking, ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter ii following the star.htm

To the Rev. A. Brandram
... Two or three leagues further on there was an inn and village, where we had proposed
staying, and indeed had expressed our intention of doing so; but on ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev a brandram 31.htm

A Continuation of the Discourse Touching the Various Degrees of ...
... see if it may please him to look at us, to speak to us, or to make us speak to him:
or yet again, by doing nothing of all this, but by simply staying where it ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xi a continuation of.htm

Elijah and the Widow's Son
... the life of my son!" He said to her, "Give me your son." So he took him out of her
arms and carried him up into the upper room where he was staying and laid ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/elijah and the widows son.htm

Thesaurus

Staying (39 Occurrences)
...Staying (39 Occurrences). ... Luke 2:8 There were shepherds in the same country staying
in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock. (WEB NAS). ...
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Jaffa (10 Occurrences)
... WEY). Acts 9:43 and Peter remained for a considerable time at Jaffa, staying
at the house of a man called Simon, a tanner. (WEY). ...
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Guest (24 Occurrences)
... is it not the guest? but I am among you as a servant. (BBE). Acts 10:6 He is staying
as a guest with Simon, a tanner, who has a house close to the sea." (WEY). ...
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Stayeth (10 Occurrences)

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Stays (21 Occurrences)

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Close (186 Occurrences)
... kill him, (See NIV). Acts 10:6 He is staying as a guest with Simon, a tanner,
who has a house close to the sea." (WEY). Acts 10:9 Now ...
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Keeping (282 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Luke 2:8 There were shepherds in the same country staying in the
field, and keeping watch by night over their flock. (WEB ...
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Nearby (14 Occurrences)
... NIV). Luke 2:8 There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field,
and keeping watch by night over their flock. (See NIV). ...
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Upstairs (8 Occurrences)
... Acts 1:13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were
staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew ...
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Upper (99 Occurrences)
... Acts 1:13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were
staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew ...
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Resources

What does the Bible say about a Christian staying single? | GotQuestions.org

Should all mothers be stay-at-home moms? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about fatigue? | GotQuestions.org

Staying: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance

Staying (39 Occurrences)

Matthew 17:22
While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,
(WEB)

Matthew 24:48
But if that evil servant should say in his heart,'My lord is delaying his coming,'
(See NIV)

Luke 2:8
There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.
(WEB NAS)

Luke 2:43
after staying the full number of days, when they started back home the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not discover this,
(WEY)

Luke 4:42
And day having come, having gone forth, he went on to a desert place, and the multitudes were seeking him, and they came unto him, and were staying him -- not to go on from them,
(YLT)

John 1:38
Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
(WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)

John 1:39
He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
(WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)

John 7:1
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
(See NIV)

John 10:40
He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
(See NAS)

Acts 1:4
Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
(See RSV)

Acts 1:13
When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
(WEB DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 9:43
and Peter remained for a considerable time at Jaffa, staying at the house of a man called Simon, a tanner.
(WEY)

Acts 10:6
He is staying as a guest with Simon, a tanner, who has a house close to the sea."
(WEY NAS NIV)

Acts 10:18
had come to the door and had called the servant, and were asking, "Is Simon, surnamed Peter, staying here?"
(WEY NAS NIV)

Acts 10:32
Send therefore to Jaffa, and invite Simon, surnamed Peter, to come here. He is staying as a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, close to the sea.'
(WEY NAS)

Acts 11:11
Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
(See NAS NIV)

Acts 16:12
and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.
(WEB DBY NAS)

Acts 21:10
As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
(See NAS RSV)

Acts 28:23
When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
(See NIV)

Genesis 25:27
The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
(See NIV)

Genesis 32:4
And he commanded them, saying: 'Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now.
(See NIV)

Genesis 36:7
For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.
(See NIV)

Exodus 8:22
And I have separated in that day the land of Goshen, in which My people are staying, that the beetle is not there, so that thou knowest that I 'am' Jehovah in the midst of the land,
(YLT)

Numbers 9:22
Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.
(See NAS)

Numbers 22:5
He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.
(WEB)

Judges 17:7
There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
(See NAS)

Judges 19:1
It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
(See NAS)

Judges 19:16
Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
(See NAS)

Judges 19:26
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was light.
(See NIV)

1 Samuel 13:16
Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
(See NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 14:2
Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;
(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 26:3
Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
(See NAS)

2 Samuel 11:11
Uriah said to David, "The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!"
(WEB NAS NIV)

2 Samuel 16:3
The king said, "Where is your master's son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said,'Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.'"
(WEB NAS NIV)

2 Samuel 17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.
(WEB ASV NAS NIV)

1 Kings 17:19
He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.
(See NIV)

1 Kings 17:20
He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?"
(See NAS NIV)

2 Kings 2:18
And they came again to him (now he was staying at Jericho); and he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?
(DBY NAS NIV)

Nehemiah 2:11
So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Staying

Staying Focused

Staying Healthy

Staying in the Church

Related Terms

Jaffa (10 Occurrences)

Guest (24 Occurrences)

Stayeth (10 Occurrences)

Stays (21 Occurrences)