Verb menō (to stay) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

10: 11Whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay (menō) there until you leave.
11: 23And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades. For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stayed (menō) until this day.
26: 38Then he said to them, "I am deeply grieved, even to death; stay (menō) here, and watch with me."

Mark

6: 10He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay (menō) there until you leave the place.
14: 34And he said to them, "I am deeply grieved, even to death; stay (menō) here, and keep awake."

Luke

1: 56And Mary stayed (menō) with her about three months and then returned to her home.
8: 27As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not stay (menō) in a house but in the tombs.
9: 4Whatever house you enter, stay (menō) there, and leave from there.
10: 7Stay (menō) in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the laborer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house.
19: 5When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay (menō) at your house today."
24: 29But they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay (menō) with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over." So he went in to stay (menō) with them.

John

1: 32And John testified, "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it stayed (menō) on him.
1: 33I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and stay (menō) is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'
1: 38When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying (menō)?"
1: 39He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was staying (menō), and they stayed (menō) with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.
2: 12After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed (menō) there a few days.
3: 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but God's wrath stays (menō) on him.
4: 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay (menō) with them; and he stayed (menō) there two days.
5: 38and you do not have his word staying (menō) in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent.
6: 27Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that stays (menō) for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal."
6: 56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood stay (menō) in me, and I in them.
7: 9After saying this, he stayed (menō) in Galilee.
8: 31Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you stay (menō) in my word, you are truly my disciples;
8: 35The slave does not stay (menō) in the household for ever; the son stays (menō) there forever.
9: 41Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, 'We see,' your sin stays (menō).
10: 40He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he stayed (menō) there.
11: 6after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed (menō) two days longer in the place where he was.
11: 54Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness; and he stayed (menō) there with the disciples.
12: 24Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it stays (menō) just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
12: 34The crowd answered him, "We have heard from the law that the Messiah stays (menō) forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
12: 46I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not stay (menō) in the darkness.
14: 10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who stays (menō) in me does his works.
14: 17This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he stays (menō) with you, and he will be in you.
14: 25"I have said these things to you while I am staying (menō) with you.
15: 4Stay (menō) in me as I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it stays (menō) in the vine, neither can you unless you stay (menō) in me.
15: 5I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who stay (menō) in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
15: 6Whoever does not stay (menō) in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
15: 7If you stay (menō) in me, and my words stay (menō) in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
15: 9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; stay (menō) in my love.
15: 10If you keep my commandments, you will stay (menō) in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and stay (menō) in his love.
15: 16You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will stay (menō), so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.
19: 31Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies stay (menō) on the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed.
21: 22Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he stay (menō) until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!"
21: 23So the rumor spread in the community that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If it is my will that he stay (menō) until I come, what is that to you?"

Acts

5: 4While it stayed (menō) unsold, did it not stay (menō) your own? And after it was sold, were not the proceeds at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You did not lie to us but to God!"
9: 43Meanwhile he stayed (menō) in Joppa for some time with a certain Simon, a tanner.
16: 15When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay (menō) at my home." And she prevailed upon us.
18: 3and, because he was of the same trade, he stayed (menō) with them, and they worked together — by trade they were tentmakers.
18: 20When they asked him to stay (menō) longer, he declined;
20: 5They went ahead and were staying (menō) for us in Troas;
20: 23except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are staying (menō) for me.
21: 7When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais; and we greeted the believers and stayed (menō) with them for one day.
21: 8The next day we left and came to Caesarea; and we went into the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the seven, and stayed (menō) with him.
27: 31Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men stay (menō) in the ship, you cannot be saved."
27: 41But striking a reef, they ran the ship aground; the bow stuck and stayed (menō) immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.
28: 16When we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay (menō) by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

1 John

2: 6whoever says, "I stay (menō) in him," ought to walk just as he walked.
2: 10Whoever loves a brother or sister stays (menō) in the light, and in such a person there is no cause for stumbling.
2: 14I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong and the word of God stays (menō) in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
2: 17And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God stay (menō) forever.
2: 19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have stayed (menō) with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.
2: 24Let what you heard from the beginning stay (menō) in you. If what you heard from the beginning stays (menō) in you, then you will stay (menō) in the Son and in the Father.
2: 27As for you, the anointing that you received from him stays (menō) in you, and so you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, stay (menō) in him.
2: 28And now, little children, stay (menō) in him, so that when he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.
3: 6No one who stays (menō) in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him.
3: 9Those who have been born of God do not sin, because God's seed stays (menō) in them; they cannot sin, because they have been born of God.
3: 14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love stays (menō) in death.
3: 15All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life staying (menō) in them.
3: 17How does God's love stay (menō) in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?
3: 24All who obey his commandments stay (menō) in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he stays (menō) in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.
4: 12No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God stays (menō) in us, and his love is perfected in us.
4: 13By this we know that we stay (menō) in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
4: 15God stays (menō) in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they in God.
4: 16So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who stay (menō) in love stay (menō) in God, and God stays (menō) in them.

2 John

1: 2because of the truth that stays (menō) in us and will be with us forever:
1: 9Everyone who does not stay (menō) in the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God; whoever stays (menō) in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.