239 occurrences

'Keep' in the Bible

You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

Verse ConceptsFlesh, Description OfNoah's ArkKept Alive By MenTwo AnimalsMale And Female Animals

Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.

Verse ConceptsAccording To Its KindKept Alive By MenKinds Of Living Things

and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsAnimal OffspringKept Alive By MenMale And Female Animals

God also said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep My covenant.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And Victory

This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised.

Verse ConceptsGesturesCeremoniesCircumcisionGod's Covenant With The Patriarchs

Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a foreign resident.”

Verse ConceptsKindnessNegotiationPolitical Alliances, By OathsSojourningFalse WaysPeople Bound By OathsSwearing

Laban asked, “What should I give you?”And Jacob said, “You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.

Verse ConceptsFeeding AnimalsWhat Is This?Not ReceivingThose Who Kept Stock

“I have enough, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what you have.”

Verse ConceptsNot Receiving

Judah replied, “Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at each other?

Verse ConceptsLooking Intently At PeopleSeeing Situations

Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants, so he called out, “Send everyone away from me!” No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers.

Verse ConceptsActing AloneGroups Sent AwayPeople Made KnownIdentity

God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

Verse ConceptsRemnantRescueEscaping EvilSurvivors Of IsraelIndividuals Saving OthersIdentityTaking Care Of The Earthdeliverance

But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them,

You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambThe Number FourteenTwilightKilling Sacrifices

Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants.

Keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesEvery Year

He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfTemporal BlessingsAbolitionBlessings, To IsraeldoctorsdiseasesCommands, in OTHealingGod As DoctorI Am The LordGod HealsHealth PromisedNames Involving GodPay Attention To God!Results Of Keeping The CommandmentsDiseaseGod Healing Our LandSicknessIllnessHealth And Healing

Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commands and instructions?

Verse ConceptsBefore People ActThey Do Not Keep Commands

“When a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep, but they are stolen from that person’s house, the thief, if caught, must repay double.

Verse ConceptsRestitutionDouble PenaltyPeople Keeping

“You are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning continually.

Verse ConceptsOlive OilThe Golden LampstandOilCandlesOil For LampsPure Things

You must remain at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days and keep the Lord’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I was commanded.”

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPresented At The DoorwayDeath As Punishment

“You must keep the Israelites from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle that is among them.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessHoliness,  Worldly SeparationParticipation, In SinSeparationDeath Due To God's PresencePolluting Holy Places

You are to practice My ordinances and you are to keep My statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Is God

Keep My statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsI Am The LordLife Through Keeping The LawWorks Of The LawBlessings Of Obedience

But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable things—not the native or the foreigner who lives among you.

Verse ConceptsForeignersAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Included In The LawKeep The Commandments!Aliensextraterrestrials

You must keep My instruction to not do any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am Yahweh your God.”

Verse ConceptsCustomPurity, Moral And SpiritualThe Lord Is GodHating Uncleanness

“You are to keep My statutes. You must not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.

Verse ConceptsMulesFieldsAnimals, religious role ofSeedCultivationAnimal ReproductionNot MixingMixing MaterialsInstruction About ClothesKeep The Commandments!GarmentsAgricultureDrugs

You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am Yahweh.”

Verse ConceptsClaimsI Am The LordKeep The Commandments!

“You are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!Eviction

They must keep My instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am Yahweh who sets them apart.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRitual LawSin BearerStewardshipDeath Due To God's PresenceI Am The LordMaking People Holy

They came to Balaam and said to him, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Let nothing keep you from coming to me,

Verse ConceptsAvoid Being Hindered

but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations.

Verse Conceptssexteenagergenocide

We will cross over in battle formation before the Lord into the land of Canaan, but we will keep our hereditary possession across the Jordan.”

Verse ConceptsRiver Crossings

“But the Lord said to me, ‘Tell them: Don’t go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from being defeated by your enemies.’

Verse ConceptsdefeatGod ForbiddingEnemy Attacks

‘Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.

Verse ConceptsHighwayPassing ThroughNot Turning Aside

You must not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it, so that you may keep the commands of the Lord your God I am giving you.

Verse ConceptsAdding to the BibleCommands, in OTRespect, For God's CharacterRevelation, In NtWord Of GodAdditionsAdding To GodSubtracting From God

Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Verse ConceptsTemporal Blessingsethics, and graceBlessings, To AbrahamOld Age, Attainment OfHow To Live LongEternal PossessionResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsKeep The Commandments!

but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.

Verse ConceptsReliabilityResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsLove And Family

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As RedeemerHand Of GodHolidayRememberingCaptivity, Of IsraelAbusive ParentsArm Of GodGod's HandGroups Of SlavesKeeping The SabbathGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commands always, so that they and their children will prosper forever.

Verse ConceptsFear Of The LordPenitentReceptive HeartsFear God!Keep The Commandments!

So keep the command—the statutes and ordinances—that I am giving you to follow today.

Verse ConceptsPresent, TheKeep The Commandments!

“If you listen to and are careful to keep these ordinances, the Lord your God will keep His covenant loyalty with you, as He swore to your fathers.

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsGod Keeps Covenanthealthcare

So keep the commands of the Lord your God by walking in His ways and fearing Him.

Verse ConceptsWalkingFear God!Keep The Commandments!

“Be careful that you don’t forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His command—the ordinances and statutes—I am giving you today.

You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

Keep the Lord’s commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good.

Verse ConceptsPresent, TheKeep The Commandments!Obeying God

Keep every command I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to cross into and possess the land you are to inherit,

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

You must follow the Lord your God and fear Him. You must keep His commands and listen to His voice; you must worship Him and remain faithful to Him.

Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodCommitment, to GodMonotheismReverence, And ObedienceFear Of The LordClinging To GodFollowing GodFear God!Keep The Commandments!

provided you keep every one of these commands I am giving you today and follow them, loving the Lord your God and walking in His ways at all times—you are to add three more cities to these three.

Verse ConceptsThree CitiesWalking In The Ways Of GodIf You Keep The CommandmentsThe Need To Love God

“If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersdelay, humanOaths, HumanPromises, HumanProcrastinationMaking Vows

Today you have affirmed that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes, commands, and ordinances, and obey Him.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTHe Is Our God

And today the Lord has affirmed that you are His special people as He promised you, that you are to keep all His commands,

Verse ConceptsMonogamyPeople Of God, In OtTreasureSpiritual Adoption

Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, “Keep every command I am giving you today.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

“All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you.

Verse ConceptsIf You Do Not Keep Commands

For I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and multiply, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

Verse ConceptsGod, Will OfLife, HumanRightsLife By LovingThe Need To Love GodKeep The Commandments!

But keep a distance of about 1,000 yards between yourselves and the ark. Don’t go near it, so that you can see the way to go, for you haven’t traveled this way before.”

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionNot Coming Near To GodUnuseddistancespace

But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster on it.

Verse ConceptsCursing IsraelUnder The Ban

I did this to test Israel and to see whether they would keep the Lord’s way by walking in it, as their fathers had.”

Verse ConceptsProving, Through Testing

The Lord left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the Lord’s commands He had given their fathers through Moses.

They told him, “Be quiet. Keep your mouth shut. Come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or for you to be a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests

On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to go, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have something to eat to keep up your strength and then you can go.”

Verse ConceptsSonsThe Fourth Day Of The WeekThose Who Rose EarlyPeople Who DelayedDay 4

He got up early in the morning of the fifth day to leave, but the girl’s father said to him, “Please keep up your strength.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.

Verse ConceptsThe Fifth Day Of The WeekThose Who Rose EarlyPeople Who DelayedDay 5

Jonathan said to the attendant who carried his weapons, “Come on, let’s cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will help us. Nothing can keep the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few.”

Verse ConceptsFaith, And Blessings Of GodUncircumcisionBraveryCourage, Examples OfFew PeopleCrossing To The Other Sidearmor

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with someone to keep it, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him.He arrived at the perimeter of the camp as the army was marching out to its battle formation shouting their battle cry.

Verse ConceptsRising Early, Examples OfChildren, Good KidsMorningOccupationsShoutingVoicesChildren, Good Examples OfRising EarlyBattle CriesThose Who Rose EarlyNo More Tending The FlockRoses

“But what have I done?” David replied to Achish. “From the first day I was with you until today, what have you found against your servant to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

Verse ConceptsWhat Sin?

Where could I ever go with my disgrace? And you—you would be like one of the immoral men in Israel! Please, speak to the king, for he won’t keep me from you.”

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningCounted As FoolsShame Will Come

For my grandfather’s entire family deserves death from my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. So what further right do I have to keep on making appeals to the king?”

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of Deathgrandfathers

The king said to him, “Why keep on speaking about these matters of yours? I hereby declare: you and Ziba are to divide the land.”

Verse ConceptsHalf Of Districts

and keep your obligation to the Lord your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commands, ordinances, and decrees. This is written in the law of Moses, so that you will have success in everything you do and wherever you turn,

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceSecrets To SuccessMoses, Significance OfWatchfulness, Of BelieversKings, How They Should ActTestimoniesKeep The Commandments!Success Through GodThe Law Given Through Moses

Keep an eye on Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim who is with you. He uttered malicious curses against me the day I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan River, and I swore to him by the Lord: ‘I will never kill you with the sword.’

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodly

If you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commands just as your father David did, I will give you a long life.”

Verse ConceptsAgingCommands, in OTKingship, HumanLife, HumanReward, DivineHow To Live LongKeep The Commandments!

“As for this temple you are building—if you walk in My statutes, observe My ordinances, and keep all My commands by walking in them, I will fulfill My promise to you, which I made to your father David.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

Therefore, Lord God of Israel,keep what You promisedto Your servant, my father David:You will never fail to have a manto sit before Me on the throne of Israel,if only your sons guard their walk before Meas you have walked before Me.

Verse ConceptsThroneSaul And David

so that He causes us to be devoted to Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, which He commanded our ancestors.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofethics, and graceHardness Of HeartWanting To Keep The Commandments

Let your heart be completely devoted to the Lord our God to walk in His statutes and to keep His commands, as it is today.”

Verse ConceptsCommitmentCommitment, to GodCommands, in OTLoyaltyRenewed HeartKeep The Commandments!DedicationBeing Devoted to God

As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Good Parental ExamplesKeep The Commandments!

If you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep My commands—My statutes that I have set before you—and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,

Verse ConceptsDifferent GodsIf You Do Not Keep Commands

Then the Lord said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and did not keep My covenant and My statutes, which I commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

“‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and My commands as My servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceCommands, in OTBuildingKingsGod Will Be With YouKeep The Commandments!The Dynasty Of David

and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you rebelled against the command of the Lord and did not keep the command that the Lord your God commanded you—

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring of water and to every wadi. Perhaps we’ll find grass so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to destroy any cattle.”

Verse ConceptsGrassMulesFeeding AnimalsKept Alive By Men

Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger got to him, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

Verse ConceptsMessengerRemoving HeadsShutting DoorsKilling ProphetsSkullsSoundThe Elders Gathered

Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commands and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets.”

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceProphets, Role OfRepentance, Nature OfSeersSin, God's Remedy ForInspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Purpose OfGod Spoke By The ProphetsKeep The Commandments!Old Testament Claims Inspirationprophets

Even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.

Verse ConceptsBreaking God's Lawcommandments

Next, the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord and to keep His commands, His decrees, and His statutes with all his mind and with all his heart, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book; all the people agreed to the covenant.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodGuaranteeHeart, And Holy SpiritPledgesReformationReligionConsecration, Examples OfPillars For Solomon's TempleWhole HeartednessLater Covenants With God

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