The word(s) "persist" appears 7 time(s) in 7 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(1) And those who when they commit an indecency or do injustice to their souls remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their faults-- and who forgives the faults but Allah, and (who) do not knowingly persist in what they have done.

(2) Therefore when they revoltingly persisted in what they had been forbidden, We said to them: Be (as) apes, despised and hated.

(3) And if We show mercy to them and remove the distress they have, they would persist in their inordinacy, blindly wandering on.

(4) Who hears the communications of Allah recited to him, then persists proudly as though he had not heard them; so announce to him a painful punishment.

(5) And they persisted in the great violation.

(6) Or who is it that will give you sustenance if He should withhold His sustenance? Nay! they persist in disdain and aversion.

(7) And whenever I have called them that Thou mayest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, cover themselves with their garments, and persist and are puffed up with pride: