To continue in/with
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G4342 describes continuing with something or someone, giving steady attention, remaining available, or persisting in an assigned practice. Acts uses the verb for shared prayer, apostolic teaching, fellowship, meals, service, and practical attendance, while other contexts can describe persistence in ordinary duties.
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G4342 describes continuing with something or someone, giving steady attention, remaining available, or persisting in an assigned practice. Acts uses the verb for shared prayer, apostolic teaching, fellowship, meals, service, and practical attendance, while other contexts can describe persistence in ordinary duties.
The BSB source-word alignment has 10 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include continued (1), Devote yourselves (1), devoted themselves (1), He followed (1), his attendants (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 3:9. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (6), Romans (2), Colossians (1), Mark (1).
G4342 describes continuing with something or someone, giving steady attention, remaining available, or persisting in an assigned practice. Acts uses the verb for shared prayer, apostolic teaching, fellowship, meals, service, and practical attendance, while other contexts can describe persistence in ordinary duties. In Acts. 1. 14, the disciples continue together in prayer while waiting for the promised Spirit after the ascension.
In Acts. 2. 42, the baptized community devotes itself to apostolic teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer. G4342 opens teaching on durable Christian practices that are repeated together, sustained through pressure, and ordered toward worship, learning, service, and care. It corrects event-centered discipleship that mistakes a brief burst of enthusiasm for the patient, communal habits described in Acts and the letters.
G4342 gives devotion a concrete rhythm: disciples persist together in prayer, the new community attends to teaching and fellowship, and believers are urged to continue in prayer while hope and affliction shape their endurance. For G4342, responsible teaching keeps lexical meaning, passage context, canonical synthesis, and present application distinguishable.
The verb does not bless compulsive busyness, leader dependence, neglect of rest, or routines maintained after they cease to serve truth and love.
G4342 appears across passages that develop devotion, perseverance, shared worship, service, prayer, and ordered community life. For G4342, the immediate setting decides which part of the range is active, so the witnesses must remain distinct rather than being merged into one formula.
With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
The disciples continue together in prayer while waiting for the promised Spirit after the ascension.
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
The baptized community devotes itself to apostolic teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
Paul places persistent prayer beside joy in hope and patient endurance in affliction.
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Greek word. Steadfast, devoted continuation in a practice or relationship, emphasizing persistence despite difficulty.
Steadfast, devoted continuation in a practice or relationship, emphasizing persistence despite difficulty.
(καρτερός, strong, stedfast) [in LXX: Num.13:21 (חָזַק hith.), Tob.5:8 א, Da Th Su 1:6* ;] to attend constantly, continue stedfastly, adhere to, wait on: with dative of person(s), Mrk.3:9, Act.8:13 10:7; with dative of thing(s), Act.1:14 2:42 6:4, Rom.12:12, Col.4:2; before ἐν, Act.2:46; εἰς, Rom.13:6.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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How this verb appears across 7 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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Christian growth and stability require steady commitment to truth and shared spiritual practices.Acts 2:42-47
G4342 gives devotion a concrete rhythm: disciples persist together in prayer, the new community attends to teaching and fellowship, and believers are urged to continue in prayer while hope and affliction shape their endurance. G4342 describes continuing with something or someone, giving steady attention, remaining available, or persisting in an assigned practice.
The selected witnesses keep the teaching concrete: Acts. 1. 14 shows that the disciples continue together in prayer while waiting for the promised Spirit after the ascension. , while Acts. 2. 42 shows that the baptized community devotes itself to apostolic teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer.. Rom. 12. 12 adds that paul places persistent prayer beside joy in hope and patient endurance in affliction..
G4342 opens teaching on durable Christian practices that are repeated together, sustained through pressure, and ordered toward worship, learning, service, and care. It corrects event-centered discipleship that mistakes a brief burst of enthusiasm for the patient, communal habits described in Acts and the letters. A church teaching G4342 faithfully will name both the promise and the boundary carried by these contexts, attend to vulnerable hearers, and refuse to make the lexical item prove more than its passages support.
The verb does not bless compulsive busyness, leader dependence, neglect of rest, or routines maintained after they cease to serve truth and love.
Acts.1.14
G4342 is a Greek verb built around continuing toward or attending to a person, task, or practice; its complement names the focus, so devotion must not be discussed in the abstract.
Israel learned covenant faithfulness through repeated worship, remembrance, and obedience; the New Testament uses G4342 to describe communal persistence centered on Christ, prayer, teaching, table fellowship, and service. The continuity lies in faithful attention to God, while the church pattern is shaped by the apostles witness and the promised Spirit.