'Keep' in the Bible

Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.

The king replied to Haman, "Keep your money, and do with those people whatever you wish."

"Don't imagine that because you are part of the king's household you will be the one Jew who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear from another source, while you and your father's household perish. It may very well be that you have achieved royal status for such a time as this!"

If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.

Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked --

I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.

Moreover, keep me from committing flagrant sins; do not allow such sins to control me. Then I will be blameless, and innocent of blatant rebellion.

Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.

I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine.

You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?

when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.

They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!

You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; those who know me leave me alone in the darkness.

if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments,

to those who keep his covenant, who are careful to obey his commands.

so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the Lord!

If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!

I will keep your statutes. Do not completely abandon me!

(Gimel) Be kind to your servant! Then I will live and keep your instructions.

Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.

Then I will keep your law continually now and for all time.

I remember your name during the night, O Lord, and I will keep your law.

I keep your commands eagerly and without delay.

I am a friend to all your loyal followers, and to those who keep your precepts.

Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, but now I keep your instructions.

Revive me with your loyal love, that I might keep the rules you have revealed.

I stay away from the evil path, so that I might keep your instructions.

I have vowed and solemnly sworn to keep your just regulations.

Deliver me from oppressive men, so that I can keep your precepts.

Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law.

I cried out to you, "Deliver me, so that I can keep your rules."

I take note of the treacherous and despise them, because they do not keep your instructions.

I keep your rules; I love them greatly.

I keep your precepts and rules, for you are aware of everything I do.

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

If your sons keep my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever."

So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

he taught me, and he said to me: "Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.

Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.

Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.

"So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.

For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

A time to search, and a time to give something up as lost; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

A time to rip, and a time to sew; a time to keep silent, and a time to speak.

I have observed the burden that God has given to people to keep them occupied.

Furthermore, if two lie down together, they can keep each other warm, but how can one person keep warm by himself?

when those who keep watch over the house begin to tremble, and the virile men begin to stoop over, and the grinders begin to cease because they grow few, and those who look through the windows grow dim,

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!

Those who get up early to drink beer are as good as dead, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith, for they trust in you.

Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

Ariel is as good as dead -- Ariel, the town David besieged! Keep observing your annual rituals, celebrate your festivals on schedule.

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don't be silent!

They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

They say, 'Keep to yourself! Don't get near me, for I am holier than you!' These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,

I said, "Oh, the feeling in the pit of my stomach! I writhe in anguish. Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds within me. I cannot keep silent. For I hear the sound of the trumpet; the sound of the battle cry pierces my soul!

Tell them that the Lord, the God of Israel, says, 'Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.

Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors to keep when I brought them out of Egypt, that place which was like an iron-smelting furnace. I said at that time, "Obey me and carry out the terms of the agreement exactly as I commanded you. If you do, you will be my people and I will be your God.

Then I will keep the promise I swore on oath to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey." That is the very land that you still live in today.'" And I responded, "Amen! Let it be so, Lord!"

And I will smash them like wine bottles against one another, children and parents alike. I will not show any pity, mercy, or compassion. Nothing will keep me from destroying them,' says the Lord."

Then the Lord spoke about these people. "They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins."

I, the Lord, say: 'You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.' So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you. I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!"

But they just keep saying, 'We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!'"

Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.

However, Ahikam son of Shaphan used his influence to keep Jeremiah from being handed over and executed by the people.

So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination, by dreams, by consulting the dead, or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, 'You do not need to be subject to the king of Babylon.'

I will say, 'My dear children of Israel, keep in mind the road you took when you were carried off. Mark off in your minds the landmarks. Make a mental note of telltale signs marking the way back. Return, my dear children of Israel. Return to these cities of yours.

For King Zedekiah had confined Jeremiah there after he had reproved him for prophesying as he did. He had asked Jeremiah, "Why do you keep prophesying these things? Why do you keep saying that the Lord says, 'I will hand this city over to the king of Babylon? I will let him capture it.

Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them.

I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence.

The prophet Jeremiah answered them, "Agreed! I will indeed pray to the Lord your God as you have asked. I will tell you everything the Lord replies in response to you. I will not keep anything back from you."

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me."

(Qof) I called for my lovers, but they had deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city. Truly they had searched for food to keep themselves alive.

Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

I said to them, "Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God."

He said to me, "This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,

and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him."

You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

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

They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

"'In a controversy they will act as judges; they will judge according to my ordinances. They will keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals and will observe my Sabbaths.

But Daniel replied to the king, "Keep your gifts, and give your rewards to someone else! However, I will read the writing for the king and make known its interpretation.

I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing in this way: "O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments,