'Keeps' in the Bible

But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

But if the bright mark keeps in the same place and gets no greater, it is the mark of the old wound, and the priest will say that he is clean.

And if the bright place keeps the same size and gets no greater on the skin, but is less bright, it is the effect of the burn, and the priest will say that he is clean: it is the mark of the burn.

By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;

He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.

Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day.

I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.

And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.

He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;

He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.

Your unchanging word is full of wonder; for this reason my soul keeps it.

Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:

He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.

He who goes about talking of others makes secrets public, but the true-hearted man keeps things covered.

He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.

A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.

Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.

There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

He who keeps the law keeps his soul; but death will be the fate of him who takes no note of the word.

The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.

He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?

He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.

Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.

Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.

If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.

Let the doors be open, so that the upright nation which keeps faith may come in.

The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.

And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:

Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.

And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

He who keeps in this town will come to his death by the sword and through need of food and through disease; but he who goes out and gives himself up to the Chaldaeans who are shutting you in, will go on living, and will keep his life safe.

Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.

And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.

Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.

I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.

When the strong man armed keeps watch over his house, then his goods are safe:

Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.

For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.