'Keep' in the Bible

They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.

A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

I say, Keep the king's commandment, and that on account of the oath of God.

Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.

Thou wilt keep in perfect peace the mind stayed on thee, for he confideth in thee.

I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day.

Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us draw near together to judgment.

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the end of the earth,

Thus saith Jehovah: Keep ye judgment and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

for thus saith Jehovah: Unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem; all the day and all the night they shall never hold their peace: ye that put Jehovah in remembrance, keep not silence,

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Will he keep his anger for ever? Will he preserve it perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and thou art so determined.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah: I will not make my face dark upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah; I will not keep anger for ever.

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations, and declare it to the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd his flock.

Take him, and keep an eye upon him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains that are upon thy hand. If it seem good in thy sight to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will keep mine eye upon thee; but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me to Babylon, forbear. See, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and right in thy sight to go, thither go.

And Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard; behold, I will pray unto Jehovah your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass that whatsoever thing Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you: I will keep nothing back from you.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground.

And he said unto me, Seest thou, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here, that they yet fill the land with violence, and keep provoking me afresh to anger? And behold, they put the branch to their nose.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

that the kingdom might be abased, that it might not lift itself up, that it might keep his covenant in order to stand.

And the wicked, if he turn from all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do judgment and justice, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.

And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness which he hath committed, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall keep his soul alive.

And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people keep talking of thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from Jehovah.

And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances, and ye shall do them.

And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: and they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my statutes, and do them.

And if they be confounded at all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its goings out, and its comings in, and all its forms, and all its statutes, yea, all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof; and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the statutes thereof, and do them.

They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall approach unto my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

And in controversy they shall stand to judge: they shall judge it according to my judgments; and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my solemnities; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

and I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made my confession, and said, Alas Lord! the great and terrible God, keeping covenant and loving-kindness with them that love him, and that keep his commandments:

And thou, return unto thy God: keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in this time; for it is an evil time.

Believe ye not in a companion, put not confidence in a familiar friend: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thy face: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

But Jehovah is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him!

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts; and I will give thee a place to walk among these that stand by.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and at his mouth they seek the law; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.

Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

And he said to him, What askest thou me concerning goodness? one is good. But if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.

all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not,

And he said, Go into the city unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near, I will keep the passover in thy house with my disciples.

For, leaving the commandment of God, ye hold what is delivered by men to keep washings of vessels and cups, and many other such like things ye do.

And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves to keep.

for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee to keep thee;

But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions.

for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,

Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any one shall keep my word, he shall never see death.

The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall never taste death.

And ye know him not; but I know him; and if I said, I know him not, I should be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word.

Some of the Pharisees therefore said, This man is not of God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such signs? And there was a division among them.

He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

and if any one hear my words and do not keep them, I judge him not, for I am not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.

He that loves me not does not keep my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but that of the Father who has sent me.

If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.

And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we.

I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.

whom having seized he put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep, purposing after the passover to bring him out to the people.

And some of those who were of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, rose up from among them, saying that they ought to circumcise them and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.

Inasmuch as we have heard that some who went out from amongst us have troubled you by words, upsetting your souls, saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law; to whom we gave no commandment;

And having laid many stripes upon them they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;

but bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem; I will return to you again, if God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.

But concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, only to keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.

ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him.

For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,

But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.

Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep you from evil.

But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself;

I testify before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing by favour.

Lay hands quickly on no man, nor partake in others' sins. Keep thyself pure.

that thou keep the commandment spotless, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

If indeed ye keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in one point, he has come under the guilt of breaking all.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished;

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

He that says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.

Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.

Children, keep yourselves from idols.

keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you with exultation blameless before his glory,