'Kept' in the Bible

And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”

Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles.

and kept back some of the price for himself, with his wife’s full knowledge, and bringing a portion of it, he laid it at the apostles’ feet.

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he kept preaching the gospel to all the cities until he came to Caesarea.

But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the Christ.

So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.

They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They kept saying, “It is his angel.”

The people kept crying out, “The voice of a god and not of a man!”

And while John was completing his course, he kept saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people kept begging that these things might be spoken to them the next Sabbath.

All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.

But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.”

and they came and appealed to them, and when they had brought them out, they kept begging them to leave the city.

Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

When we came in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left, we kept sailing to Syria and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload its cargo.

After looking up the disciples, we stayed there seven days; and they kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

for the multitude of the people kept following them, shouting, “Away with him!”

he said, “I will give you a hearing after your accusers arrive also,” giving orders for him to be kept in Herod’s Praetorium.

Then he gave orders to the centurion for him to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from ministering to him.

Festus then answered that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself was about to leave shortly.

But when Paul appealed to be held in custody for the Emperor’s decision, I ordered him to be kept in custody until I send him to Caesar.”

And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.

but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.

but the centurion, wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land,