'Kept' in the Bible

You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

Certainly sin was in the world before the Law was given, but no record of sin is kept when there is no Law.

But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

For which reason I was frequently kept from coming to you:

So that I may be kept safe from those in Judaea who have not put themselves under the rule of God, and that the help which I am taking for Jerusalem may be pleasing to the saints;

Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,