'Keep' in the Bible

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God.

I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments;

to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

This is my way, that I keep your precepts. CHET

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore. A Song of Ascents. By David.

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;

You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

"Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let's meet together for judgment.

"I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;

Thus says Yahweh, "Keep justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

For thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:

"Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,

"'Will he retain [his anger] forever? Will he keep it to the end?' Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way."

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says Yahweh; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says Yahweh. 'I will not keep [anger] forever.

Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.

In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.

I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

"Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.

I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.

If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.

This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"

He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

"I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."

He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.