17 occurrences

'Kept' in the Bible

For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been more uncontrolled than the nations round about you, and have not been guided by my rules or kept my orders, but have kept the orders of the nations round about you;

Verse ConceptsCitizenshipThey Do Not Keep Commands

And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forApostasy in OTRejection Of God, Results OfHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleHedonismForsaking GodEscaping EvilIdol WorshipHating Individualsheartbroken

Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition to all your disgusting acts.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessMarriage, Between God And His PeopleYouthful DevotionGod Will RequiteThey Committed Immorality

And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,

Verse ConceptsExcessGreed, Believers' Response ToInterestLending

And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodIf You Keep The Commandments

Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.

Verse ConceptsSins Of The FathersIf You Keep The Commandments

But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltSins Of The FathersResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsFathers Responsibilities

Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in memory against him: in the righteousness which he has done he will have life.

But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.

Verse ConceptsRighteous, TheSanctification, Means And ResultsDoing The Right Thing

But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfLongsuffering Of GodDying In The Wilderness

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFraudCreditCovenant breakersExcessGreed, Condemnation OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfInterestMoney, Stewardship OfBusiness EthicsCovetousness, Results InExtortionSheddingKilling The InnocentOppressors

So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.

Verse ConceptsThrowing AwaySpiritual Harlotryconsequences

When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him.

Verse ConceptsdistrustTrust, Lack OfTrusting YourselfGod Forgetting

Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.

Verse ConceptsGod Forgetting

Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.

Verse ConceptsBleedingPolluting The Land

In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them.

Verse ConceptsOffenceGod HidingAccording To Things

For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodPeople Going Astray

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