And he replied to Him, “Teacher, I have [carefully] kept all these [commandments] since my youth.”

He went down to Nazareth with them, and was continually submissive and obedient to them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart.

While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and protected them, and not one of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself [in rented quarters] with the soldier who was guarding him.

In Damascus the governor (ethnarch) under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,

Now before faith came, we were kept in custody under the Law, [perpetually] imprisoned [in preparation] for the faith that was destined to be revealed,

who are being protected and shielded by the power of God through your faith for salvation that is ready to be revealed [for you] in the last time.

‘I know your deeds. See, I have set before you an open door which no one is able to shut, for you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not renounced or denied My name.

Because you have kept the word of My endurance [My command to persevere], I will keep you [safe] from the hour of trial, that hour which is about to come on the whole [inhabited] world, to test those who live on the earth.