'Keep' in the Bible

Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.

The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

He said, “Go, and tell this people:‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive;Keep on looking, but do not understand.’

Now in that day a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep;

“The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace,Because he trusts in You.

You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival,And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute,To go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

For a fool speaks nonsense,And his heart inclines toward wickedness:To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord,To keep the hungry person unsatisfiedAnd to withhold drink from the thirsty.

Thus says the Lord,“In a favorable time I have answered You,And in a day of salvation I have helped You;And I will keep You and give You for a covenant of the people,To restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;

For thus says the Lord,“To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths,And choose what pleases Me,And hold fast My covenant,

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet,Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness,And her salvation like a torch that is burning.

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;All day and all night they will never keep silent.You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves;

Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O Lord?Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

“Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me,For I am holier than you!’These are smoke in My nostrils,A fire that burns all the day.

“Behold, it is written before Me,I will not keep silent, but I will repay;I will even repay into their bosom,

“Keep your feet from being unshodAnd your throat from thirst;But you said, ‘It is hopeless!No! For I have loved strangers,And after them I will walk.’

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!

“You who have forsaken Me,” declares the Lord,“You keep going backward.So I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;I am tired of relenting!

Look, they keep saying to me,“Where is the word of the Lord?Let it come now!”

You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the sabbath day nor do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers.

“But it will come about, if you listen attentively to Me,” declares the Lord, “to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to keep the sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,

But if you do not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not be quenched.”’”

“They keep saying to those who despise Me,‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace”’;And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,They say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’

Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,And declare in the coastlands afar off,And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather himAnd keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that no one should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage.

And all the officials and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, so that no one should keep them any longer in bondage; they obeyed, and set them free.

But if you keep refusing to go out, this is the word which the Lord has shown me:

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I am going to pray to the Lord your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole message which the Lord will answer you. I will not keep back a word from you.”

“Stand by the road and keep watch,O inhabitant of Aroer;Ask him who flees and her who escapesAnd say, ‘What has happened?’

“Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive;And let your widows trust in Me.”

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

For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death some who should not die and to keep others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.”’”

“I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

I am the Lord your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

“My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

He said to me, “This is the chamber which faces toward the south, intended for the priests who keep charge of the temple;

but the chamber which faces toward the north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi come near to the Lord to minister to Him.”

And you have not kept charge of My holy things yourselves, but you have set foreigners to keep charge of My sanctuary.”

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the house, of all its service and of all that shall be done in it.

“They shall enter My sanctuary; they shall come near to My table to minister to Me and keep My charge.

In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts and sanctify My sabbaths.

“The vision of the evenings and morningsWhich has been told is true;But keep the vision secret,For it pertains to many days in the future.”

I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed and said, “Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,

“His sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and overflow and pass through, that he may again wage war up to his very fortress.

Then one’s uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will answer, “Keep quiet. For the name of the Lord is not to be mentioned.”

I will stand on my guard postAnd station myself on the rampart;And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,And how I may reply when I am reproved.

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;