'Kept' in the Bible

With one mind, all of them kept devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women (including Mary the mother of Jesus) and his brothers.

All of them continued to be stunned and puzzled, and they kept asking one another, "What can this mean?"

But others kept saying in derision, "They're drunk on sweet wine!"

With his wife's full knowledge, he kept back some of the money for himself and brought the remainder and laid it at the apostles' feet.

As a result, people kept carrying their sick into the streets and placing them on stretchers and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he went by.

Every day in the Temple and from house to house they kept teaching and proclaiming that Jesus is the Messiah.

But they could neither refute the wisdom nor withstand the Spirit by which he kept speaking.

As they continued to stone Stephen, he kept praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

But Philip found himself at Azotus. As he was passing through that region, he kept proclaiming the good news in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

He kept talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews, but they were bent on murdering him.

So the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace. As it continued to be built up and to live in the fear of the Lord, it kept increasing in numbers through the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.

When he arrived, he rejoiced to see what the grace of God had done, and with hearty determination he kept encouraging all of them to remain faithful to the Lord,

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God for him was being offered by the assembly.

The other people told her, "You're out of your mind!" But she kept insisting that it was so. Then they said, "It's his angel."

Meanwhile, Peter kept on knocking and knocking. When they opened the gate, they saw him and were amazed.

The people kept shouting, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man!"

and that everyone who believes in him is justified and freed from everything that kept you from being justified by the Law of Moses.

As Paul and Barnabas were leaving, the people kept urging them to tell them the same things the next Sabbath.

When the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who kept talking to them and urging them to continue in the grace of God.

They stayed there a considerable time and continued to speak boldly for the Lord, who kept affirming his word of grace and granting signs and wonders to be done by them.

There they kept talking about the good news.

She kept doing this for many days until Paul became annoyed, turned to her and told the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus the Messiah to come out of her!" And it came out that very moment.

He had been instructed in the Lord's way, and with spiritual fervor he kept speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only about John's baptism.

Many who became believers kept coming to confess and talk about what they had been doing.

In that way the word of the Lord kept spreading and triumphing.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

So we located some disciples and stayed there for seven days. Through the Spirit, they kept telling Paul not to go to Jerusalem,

The crowd of people kept following him and shouting, "Kill him!"

I persecuted this Way, even executing people, and kept tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

"I said, "Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I kept imprisoning and beating those who believe in you.

he said, "I will hear your case when your accusers arrive." Then he ordered Paul to be kept in custody in Herod's palace.

Festus replied that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself would be going there soon.

Instead, they had several arguments with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus who had died but Paul kept asserting he was alive.

For this reason the Jewish leaders grabbed me in the Temple and kept trying to kill me.

Right up to daybreak Paul kept urging all of them to eat something. He said, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, not eating anything.