'Kept' in the Bible

If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Indeed, I have kept all His ordinances in mindand have not disregarded His statutes.

I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)

Yet, you are the one who took me from the womb, and kept me safe on my mother's breasts.

For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;I humbled my soul with fasting,And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

For the Lord loves justiceand will not abandon His faithful ones.They are kept safe forever,but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.

I was speechless and quiet;I kept silent, even from speaking good,and my pain intensified.

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.

Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

I will thank You forever, because You have done it, [You have rescued me and kept me safe].I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

You have kept count of my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle have not you recorded them in your book?

because you have delivered my soul from death. [Have you] not [kept] my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Who keeps us among the living,And does not allow our feet to slip or stumble.

I kept my heart pure for nothing and kept my hands clean from guilt.

For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.

You have kept me from closing my eyes;I am troubled and cannot speak.

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Despite all this, they kept sinningand did not believe His wonderful works.

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,

For he kept in mind his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

And he took them safely out of the hands of their haters, and kept them from the attacks of those who were against them.

And all the generations coming after him kept the memory of his righteousness for ever.

And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.

He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.

The Lord has kept us in mind and will give us his blessing; he will send blessings on the house of Israel and on the house of Aaron.

Yes, Lord, you rescued my life from death, and kept my feet from stumbling.

You have commanded that Your preceptsbe diligently kept.

I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.

I have kept the memory of your decisions from times past, O Lord; and they have been my comfort.

I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

The cords of evil-doers are round me; but I have kept in mind your law.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

I have kept my feet from every evil pathto follow Your word.

I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.

Pe. Wonderful are Thy testimonies, Therefore hath my soul kept them.

Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

Lord, my hope has been in your salvation; and I have kept your teachings.

My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

I rejoiced when they kept on asking me, "Let us go to the LORD's Temple."

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Have I not compared, and kept silent my soul, As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me is my soul.

Who kept us in mind when we were in trouble: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Remember the day of Jerusalem's fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, "Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!"

For Jehovah is at thy side, And He hath kept thy foot from capture.

Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;I am cleansed from my sin”?

The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.

Better is open protest than love kept secret.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

Whoever trusts in himself is foolish, but whoever lives wisely will be kept safe.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.

The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low.

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.

If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:

They kept on calling to each other: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of the Heavenly Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!"

The foundations of the thresholds quaked at the sound of those who kept calling out, and the Temple was filled with smoke.

And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'

Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.

For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off they have fled.