Maintain

Maintain

“to preside, rule,” also means “to maintain,” Tit 3:8, Tit 3:14, “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.

Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words