'Keep' in the Bible

In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,‘You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.”’”

Then He *said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me.”

And He *came to the disciples and *found them sleeping, and *said to Peter, “So, you men could not keep watch with Me for one hour?

Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

And sitting down, they began to keep watch over Him there.

And if this should come to the governor’s ears, we will win him over and keep you out of trouble.”

He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

“Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.

And He *said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death; remain here and keep watch.”

And He *came and *found them sleeping, and *said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?

Keep watching and praying that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

When day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were searching for Him, and came to Him and tried to keep Him from going away from them.

Stay in that house, eating and drinking what they give you; for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house.

And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying.

“Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit.

Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.

Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.

He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves 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 who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.

I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?

you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

So, since these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and to do nothing rash.

Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.

saying,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;And you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

“Their throat is an open grave,With their tongues they keep deceiving,”“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.

But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.

but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.

The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.

For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.

Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.

Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach;

Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily and thereby share responsibility for the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin.

that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

whom I wished to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel;

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

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

And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,

So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.”