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Maintain
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
"to preside, rule," also means "to maintain," Titus 3:8,14 , "to maintain (good works)," RV marg., "profess honest occupations" (AV, marg. ... "trades"). The usage of the phrase kala erga (good works) in the Pastoral Epistles is decisive for the rendering "good works," here. See OVER (to be), RULE.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Maintain'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/m/maintain.html. 1940.