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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
abide .
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Examples
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His word abides with us, and His first gift to the Church after He rose was the Holy Ghost, who came to lead men to all truth.
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Wrath again implies that the bile endures, that is to say, that the memory of the wrong abides: and indeed the Greek word for it, menis is derived from menein, and means what abides and is transferred to memory.
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Thoughts, of themselves, are perpetually slipping out of the field of immediate mental vision; but the name abides with us, and the utterance of it restores them in a moment.
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With chisel and hammer they hack at all the paneling of the sanctuary. the place where your name abides they have razed and profaned.
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'Wq Ihall fee as foon as a temptation meets with thee, whether the word abides in thee; if it abide, thou wilt not fin, but refill: the tempter.
Scripture truths demonstrated, in thirty-two sermons; or, Declarations of Stephen Crisp
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(1809-1877) "Sit apart, write; let them hear or let them forbear; the written word abides, until, slowly and unexpectedly, and in widely sundered places, it has created its own church."
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If he had known a little more about the Christ to whose allegiance he had declared himself he might have knelt and asked for guidance; but as yet he had not so much as heard of a promise to the man who "abides," and "asks what he will."
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I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
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As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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