415 occurrences in 13 translations

'Kept' in the Bible

But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?

Verse ConceptsNeedHumility, Examples OfBaptised Into ChristChrist's BaptismMan's NeedsBaptism

Suddenly, a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat began to be swamped by the waves. Yet Jesus kept sleeping.

Verse ConceptsBody Of Christ, Physical BodySleep, PhysicalStormsTirednessSwampedlakes

And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of JesusStock Keeping

For she kept saying to herself, "If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed."

Verse ConceptsCertaintyTouching For HealingJesus HealingFaith And Healing

“So do not be afraid of them, for nothing is hidden that will not be revealed [at the judgment], or kept secret that will not be made known [at the judgment].

Verse ConceptsDisclosuresVeilsAcquiring KnowledgeHidden ThingsDo Not Fear Mensecrets

All the crowds were amazed and kept saying, "This man isn't the Son of David, is he?"

Verse ConceptsAmazingDemons, Delivered FromJesus As Son Of DavidCrowds AmazedWho Is Jesus?

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Verse ConceptsMouthsDisclosuresChrist's Fulfilment Of ProphecyFrom The BeginningOthers Using ParablesWritten In The ProphetsGod's Things Concealed

But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

Verse ConceptsCelebrationsBanquets, ActivitiesGuestsBirthdays CelebratedFathers Birthdayheroes

They kept begging him to let them touch just the tassel of his garment, and everyone who touched it was completely healed.

Verse ConceptsCloaksTasselsOuter GarmentsFringe Of ClothesTouching For HealingJesus Healing

But he didn't answer her at all. Then his disciples came up and kept urging him, "Send her away, because she keeps on screaming as she follows us."

Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessComing To ChristChrist Driving Out PeopleIndividuals ShoutingThe Disciples ReactionsChrist Being SilentChrist With His DisciplesOthers Not Answering

But she came and began to kneel down before Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”

Verse ConceptsFeetBowingKneelingCrying To JesusGod Help!

Jesus went on from there and passed along by [the eastern shore of] the Sea of Galilee. Then He went up on the hillside and was sitting there.

Verse ConceptsRetirementSitting To TeachMoving Onlakes

He took the seven loaves and the fish, and He gave thanks, broke them, and kept on giving them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Verse ConceptsThankfulnessThanksgiving Before MealsSeven ThingsBreaking Of BreadGiving Food And DrinkThanking God For FoodDividing FoodFish

As they began to discuss this among themselves, they kept saying, "We didn't bring along any bread."

Verse ConceptsConversationNo Food

And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Jesus.

Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfPeople AppearingConversationfitness

for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive it -- let him receive.'

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimdisabilitiesSexualityBachelorsThe Lust Of The FleshMasturbationMan's FunctionFrom The WombPeople Of The KingdomJesus BirthGay MarriageSame Sex MarriageBeing SingleStruggles In Relationship

The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

Verse ConceptsI Keep The CommandmentsMan's Needs

But a very great crowd strewed their own garments on the way, and others kept cutting down branches from the trees and strewing them on the way.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingCutting Off BranchesCrowds Around JesusFoliageUsing Roads

Then the crowds who went ahead of Him and those who followed kept shouting:Hosanna to the Son of David!He who comes in the nameof the Lord is the blessed One!Hosanna in the highest heaven!

Verse ConceptsdoxologyCovenant, God's with DavidPraise, Manner And Methods OfJesus As Son Of DavidCrowds Around JesusGroups ShoutingSpecific Praising Of GodThings On HighSave Us!The Fact Of His ComingIn God's Namemath

But of this be assured, that if the master of the house had known the hour at which the robber was coming, he would have kept awake, and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Verse ConceptsMan Keeping WatchParables Of ChristWithheld KnowledgeKnowingThe Time UnknownThe Lord As A Thiefthieves

But he who was given the one went away and put it in a hole in the earth, and kept his lord's money in a secret place.

Verse ConceptsTalentsExcavationHidden ThingsOne Material ThingHoles In The GroundGifts And TalentsMoney Blessingsinvestinghiding

But they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

Verse ConceptsDisorder Among PeopleAt The Same Time

And Peter kept following Him at a distance, till he came even to the court of the High Priest's palace, where he entered and sat down among the officers to see the issue.

Verse ConceptsPeople Sitting DownEnd Of Actionsdistanceprepping

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsLeaders, SpiritualAttempts To Kill ChristSeeking For Abstract ThingsThe Chief Priests Condemning Christaccusations

But Jesus kept silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “By the living God I place You under oath: tell us if You are the Messiah, the Son of God!”

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingSilenceSpeech, Power And Significance OfAdjurationChrist Being SilentWho Is Jesus?Called Himself The ChristRivers

When however the High Priests and the Elders kept bringing their charges against Him, He said not a word in reply.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsChrist Being SilentOthers Not AnsweringThe Chief Priests Condemning Christeldersaccusations

Then he said, “Why? What has He done wrong?”But they kept shouting, “Crucify Him!” all the more.

Verse ConceptsGroups ShoutingChrist Would Be KilledWhat Sin?

In the same way the high priests, along with the scribes and elders, were also making fun of him. They kept saying,

Verse ConceptsChief priestsCorrupt PriestsMocking ChristOpposition To Christ From ScribesFunpriests

But the others kept saying, "Wait! Let's see if Elijah will come and save him."

Verse ConceptsIndividual ProphetsLeave Them Alone

And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

Verse ConceptsWomenOpposite SidesPeople Sitting DownJesus Tomb

And all the country of Judea and all the people of Jerusalem were continually going out to him; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

Verse ConceptsJohn's BaptismRevival, CorporateRivers And StreamsBaptised By JohnIn The JordanSin Confessedconfessing

He kept proclaiming, "The one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to bend down and untie his sandal straps.

Verse ConceptsShoesSelf AbasementUndoing FasteningsBowing Before Messiah

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

Verse ConceptsAmazingExorcismsevil, victory overDemons, Delivered FromNewnessAmazement, Of Jesus ChristAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesChrist's DominionAuthority Of ChristWhat Is This?Christ's Ordersdoctrine

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGod's Deed RevealedTemporary Stay In The Wildernesslonliness

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

Verse ConceptsHealingReverence, And God's NatureAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesLiving WitnessesUnique EventsCrowds AmazedPeople Getting UpSpecific Praising Of God

Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd kept coming to him, and he kept teaching them.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsPopularityPopularity Of ChristSeashoresChrist Teachinglakes

The Pharisees were watching Jesus closely to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him [in the Jewish high court].

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapWatching ChristJesus HealingThe Sabbath And ChristJesus Healing On Sabbath

Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing.

Verse ConceptsCrowds SeekingDrawing Near To ChristHearing About ChristBeyond Jordan

because he had healed so many people that everyone who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesPopularityPersonal ContactPopularity Of ChristDealing With Many PeoplePressingTouching For HealingJesus Healing

Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed out, “You are the Son of God!”

Verse Conceptsdemons, Kinds ofSaid To Be The ChristBowing Before Messiah

For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.

Verse ConceptsDisclosuresFrom Darkness To LightHidden ThingsAvoiding SecrecyEverything Happening For A Reason

With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand.

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingHearing ChristJesus Using Parables

And a fierce windstorm began to blow, and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already being swamped.

Verse ConceptsStormsBoatsSwamped

Overcome with fear, they kept saying to one another, "Who is this man? Even the wind and the sea obey him!"

Verse ConceptsConfusionWho Is Jesus?Fear Of ChristThe Sea Stilledoverwhelmed

And he kept begging Him not to send them out of the region.

As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging Him to be with Him.

Verse ConceptsBoatsChrist With People On EarthThose DemonisedDemonic Influence

for she kept saying, "If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed."

Verse ConceptsCertaintyOuter GarmentsTouching For HealingSoliloquyHow Healing Came

His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in around You [from all sides], and You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”

Verse ConceptsPressingTouching For HealingThe Disciples WordsWho Is The Doer?

But he kept looking around to look at the woman who had done this.

Verse ConceptsWho Is The Doer?Looking And Seeing

But others were saying, “He is Elijah!” And others were saying, “It is a prophet, like one of the prophets [of old].”

Verse ConceptsJesus The ProphetWho He Might Be

But when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen!”

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMartyrdom, Methods OfBeheading

For Herod himself had sent and had had John arrested and had kept him in prison in chains, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersRopesBad Wives ExamplesDispleasureTransferring Wives

for Herod feared John knowing that he was a just and holy man, and kept him safe; and having heard him, did many things, and heard him gladly.

Verse ConceptsPuzzlementSpecific Holy IndividualsFear Of Individuals

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to His disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

Verse ConceptsBreaking Of BreadThankfulnessFive ThingsTwo AnimalsThanking God For FoodDividing FoodFish

So the Pharisees and scribes asked Jesus, “Why do Your disciples not live their lives according to the tradition of the elders, but [instead] eat their bread with [ceremonially] unwashed hands?”

Verse ConceptsFaultsComplaintselders, as community leadersConfrontationLaw, Jesus Christ's Attitude ToPharisees, Beliefs OfTraditionsPeople UnwashedHow People EatPharisees Concerned About ChristLack Of HolinessFinding Fault With Jesus

Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.

Verse ConceptsSecrecyRetirementAnonymityImpotence Of ChristEntering HousesChrist Concealing Things

Now the woman was Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Verse Conceptsdemons, Kinds ofBeggarsGreeksLove, And The WorldJesus Casting Out Demons

But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstPeople Providing FoodSalvation For IsraelGood ChildrenFamily FirstKidsPetsFeeding The Poor

Jesus ordered the people not to tell anyone, but the more he kept ordering them, the more they kept spreading the news.

Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGrowth In ProclamationChrist Concealing ThingsSpreading StoriesChrist's Orders

Amazed beyond measure, they kept on saying, "He does everything well! He even makes deaf people hear and mute people talk!"

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToThe Deaf HearingDumbnessGod Doing GoodDumbJesus HealingThe Dumb Speakingoverwhelmed

Then He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks, broke the loaves, and kept on giving them to His disciples to set before the people. So they served the loaves to the crowd.

Verse ConceptsThankfulnessThanksgivingCrowds Around JesusSeven ThingsReclining To EatThe Disciples ActionsBreaking Of BreadTable Grace

And He was saying to them, “Do you still not understand?”

Verse ConceptsBeing Without Understanding

And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

Verse ConceptsDiscussionsUnintelligiblenessAre The Dead Raised?

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into convulsions. He fell on the ground and kept rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

Verse ConceptsPeople TumblingRollingConvulsionsFoamsThe First Sight Of Christ

But they kept silent, because they had argued on the road with one another about who was the greatest.

Verse ConceptsDiscussionsIndividuals Being SilentGreatness Of Disciples

People were bringing children to Him so that He would touch and bless them, but the disciples reprimanded them and discouraged them [from coming].

Verse ConceptsRebukeSensitivityTouchPersonal ContactDrawing Near To ChristLaying On Hands To HealThe Disciples ReactionsChildren And The Kingdom

Many were sternly telling him to be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Verse ConceptsJesus As Son Of DavidIndividuals ShoutingBe Merciful!

Then those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting:Hosanna!He who comes in the nameof the Lord is the blessed One!

Verse ConceptsAcclaimingPeople Going BeforeGroups ShoutingBlessed In ServiceSave Us!The Fact Of His ComingIn God's Name

The chief priests and the scribes heard this and began searching for a way to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, since the entire crowd was struck with astonishment at His teaching.

Verse ConceptsScribesTeachers Of The LawMalice, Examples OfAmazement, Of Jesus ChristCrowds AmazedChrist TeachingChrist Would Be KilledFear Of ChristOpposition To Christ From Scribes

and began saying to Him, “By what authority are You doing these things, or who gave You this authority to do these things?”

Verse ConceptsGod Appointing His Son

And they kept looking out for an opportunity to seize Him, but were afraid of the people; for they saw that in this parable He had referred to *them*. So they left Him and went away.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristTeachers Of The LawProper UnderstandingArresting ChristFearing Other PeopleJesus Using ParablesLeaving People Alone

David himself calls him "Lord,' so how can he be his son?" And the large crowd kept listening to him with delight.

Verse ConceptseagernessCrowdsPopularity Of Christ

And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.

Verse ConceptsTreasuriesBrassOpposite SidesPeople Sitting DownRight Use Of WealthSeeing SituationsMoney For The TempleMoney Box

And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.

Verse ConceptsRestraintA Short TimeShort Time Till The EndThose Not SavedFor The Sake Of God's PeopleGod's Intervention

because they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

Verse ConceptsDisorder Among People

But he kept insisting, “If I have to die with You, I will never deny You!” And they all said the same thing.

Verse Conceptsdenial of Jesus ChristPeter, The DiscipleResigned To Deathvulnerabilitydenial

Going on a little farther, he fell to the ground and kept praying that if it were possible the hour might pass from him.

Verse ConceptsHourNeverPossibilities For GodJesus PrayingPossible For God

And they laid on him their hands, and kept hold on him;

Verse ConceptsArrestingArresting Christ

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsAttempts To Kill ChristNot FindingThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

Bible Theasaurus

Celebrate (93 instances)
Continue (334 instances)
Maintain (89 instances)
Observe (357 instances)
Prevent (56 instances)
Proceed (70 instances)
Retain (38 instances)
Sustain (46 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.

King James Version Public Domain

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org

NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible