'Keeps' in the Bible

who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

“He keeps the feet of His godly ones,But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness;For not by might shall a man prevail.

He keeps back his soul from the pit,And his life from passing over into Sheol.

When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn?And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him,That is, in regard to both nation and man?—

He keeps all his bones,Not one of them is broken.

Who keeps us in lifeAnd does not allow our feet to slip.

My soul keeps Your testimonies,And I love them exceedingly.

He will not allow your foot to slip;He who keeps you will not slumber.

Behold, He who keeps IsraelWill neither slumber nor sleep.

A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.Unless the Lord builds the house,They labor in vain who build it;Unless the Lord guards the city,The watchman keeps awake in vain.

The Lord keeps all who love Him,But all the wicked He will destroy.

Who made heaven and earth,The sea and all that is in them;Who keeps faith forever;

He who despises his neighbor lacks sense,But a man of understanding keeps silent.

By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for,And by the fear of the Lord one keeps away from evil.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise;When he closes his lips, he is considered prudent.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul;He who keeps understanding will find good.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul,But he who is careless of conduct will die.

If you say, “See, we did not know this,”Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts?And does He not know it who keeps your soul?And will He not render to man according to his work?

He who keeps the law is a discerning son,But he who is a companion of gluttons humiliates his father.

A man who loves wisdom makes his father glad,But he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.

Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained,But happy is he who keeps the law.

For he will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.

He who keeps a royal command experiences no trouble, for a wise heart knows the proper time and procedure.

The oracle concerning Edom.One keeps calling to me from Seir,“Watchman, how far gone is the night?Watchman, how far gone is the night?”

“How blessed is the man who does this,And the son of man who takes hold of it;Who keeps from profaning the sabbath,And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

“Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,To minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord,To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbathAnd holds fast My covenant;

‘They do not say in their heart,“Let us now fear the Lord our God,Who gives rain in its season,Both the autumn rain and the spring rain,Who keeps for usThe appointed weeks of the harvest.”

“As a well keeps its waters fresh,So she keeps fresh her wickedness.Violence and destruction are heard in her;Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

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.”

if he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,

he keeps his hand from the poor, does not take interest or increase, but executes My ordinances, and walks in My statutes; he will not die for his father’s iniquity, he will surely live.

Then they answered and spoke before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a day.”

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,

How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!

Therefore at such a time the prudent person keeps silent, for it is an evil time.

Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”

Blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”

Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death.”

The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.’

He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”

So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations;

(“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”)