'Kept' in the Bible

For you have heard about my earlier life in Judaism how I kept violently persecuting God's church and was trying to destroy it.

they simply kept hearing: “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

So they kept glorifying God for what had happened to me.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

So also we [whether Jews or Gentiles], when we were children (spiritually immature), were kept like slaves under the elementary [man-made religious or philosophical] teachings of the world.

For the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept the single precept, which says, "You are to love your fellow man equally with yourself."