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This concept is frequently associated with the observance of God's commandments, the protection of one's heart and mind, and the stewardship of God's creation and gifts. Biblical References: 1. Keeping God's Commandments: The Bible emphasizes the importance of keeping God's commandments as a demonstration of love and faithfulness to Him. In <a href="/john/14-15.htm">John 14:15</a>, Jesus states, "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." This verse underscores the connection between love for God and obedience to His laws. Similarly, in <a href="/deuteronomy/6-17.htm">Deuteronomy 6:17</a>, the Israelites are instructed, "You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and His testimonies and statutes He has commanded you." 2. Keeping the Heart and Mind: <a href="/proverbs/4-23.htm">Proverbs 4:23</a> advises, "Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life." This verse highlights the importance of keeping one's heart pure and focused on God, as it influences one's actions and life direction. <a href="/philippians/4-7.htm">Philippians 4:7</a> further assures believers that "the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." 3. Keeping the Faith: The New Testament encourages believers to keep the faith amidst trials and challenges. In <a href="/2_timothy/4-7.htm">2 Timothy 4:7</a>, the Apostle Paul reflects on his life, saying, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." This statement serves as an exhortation to remain steadfast in one's belief and trust in God. 4. Keeping the Sabbath: Observance of the Sabbath is a significant aspect of keeping God's commandments. <a href="/exodus/20-8.htm">Exodus 20:8-10</a> commands, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God." This observance is a sign of the covenant between God and His people, serving as a day of rest and worship. 5. Keeping Watch: The concept of vigilance and readiness is also encapsulated in the idea of keeping watch. In <a href="/matthew/24-42.htm">Matthew 24:42</a>, Jesus warns, "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come." This call to watchfulness is a reminder to live in a state of spiritual preparedness for the return of Christ. 6. Keeping God's Word: The psalmist expresses a deep commitment to keeping God's word in <a href="/psalms/119-11.htm">Psalm 119:11</a>, "I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You." This verse illustrates the protective and guiding role of Scripture in a believer's life, encouraging the internalization and application of God's teachings. Theological Significance: Keeping, in its various forms, is a central theme in the Bible that reflects a believer's relationship with God. It involves a commitment to obedience, faithfulness, and stewardship. The act of keeping is not merely a passive state but an active engagement in living out one's faith through actions, thoughts, and attitudes that honor God.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keep.2. (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.3. (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.4. (n.) Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.5. (n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/5084.htm">5084. teresis -- a watching, hence imprisonment, a keeping</a> ... a watching, hence imprisonment, a keeping. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: teresis Phonetic Spelling: (tay'-ray-sis) Short Definition: a prison ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5084.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/802.htm">802. asunthetos -- not keeping covenant</a> ... not keeping covenant. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: asunthetos Phonetic Spelling: (as-oon'-thet-os) Short Definition: untrue to an agreement ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/802.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/5083.htm">5083. tereo -- to watch over, to guard</a> ... to guard NASB Word Usage continue (1), guard (1), guards (1), heed (2), heeds (1), held in custody (1), keep (27), keep watch over (1), keeping (1), keeping ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5083.htm - 10k<a href="/greek/5442.htm">5442. phulasso -- to guard, watch</a> ... a military guard") -- properly, preserve by "having an eye on" (J. Thayer), referring to the uninterrupted vigilance shepherds show in keeping their flocks ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5442.htm - 9k<a href="/greek/514.htm">514. axios -- of weight, of worth, worthy</a> ... 514 (an adjective derived from , "to weigh") -- properly, to , ("worth-to-worth"); , ie as the assessment in keeping with how something "weighs in" on . ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/514.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/4908.htm">4908. sunetos -- intelligent</a> ... 4920 , "to understand by synthesizing") -- properly, "personal" understanding that results from facts (concepts), ie as understanding works in keeping with . ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4908.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/4909.htm">4909. suneudokeo -- to join in approving</a> ... 4909 (from 4862 , "identity " and 2106 , "seems good") -- properly, to in a "" (), in keeping with the involved (note the ); to cooperate with a partner to ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4909.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/4520.htm">4520. sabbatismos -- a sabbath rest</a> ... Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: sabbatismos Phonetic Spelling: (sab-bat-is-mos') Short Definition: a Sabbath rest Definition: a keeping of the ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4520.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/1921.htm">1921. epiginosko -- to know exactly, to recognize</a> ... [Believers then will (aptly) know the Lord throughout the aeons of eternity -- in keeping with (Gk ) they allowed Him to () here on earth. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1921.htm - 10k<a href="/greek/2272.htm">2272. hesuchios -- tranquil</a> ... A prolonged form of a compound probably of a derivative of the base of hedraios and perhaps echo; properly, keeping one's seat (sedentary), ie (by implication ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2272.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/4929.htm">4929. mishmar -- place of confinement, jail, prison, guard, watch ...</a> ... of confinement, jail, prison, guard, watch, observance NASB Word Usage confinement (4), custody (2), diligence (1), division (2), guard (8), keeping watch (1 ... /hebrew/4929.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2287.htm">2287. chagag -- to make a pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim feast</a> ... root Definition to make a pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim feast NASB Word Usage celebrate (9), celebrate a feast (3), dancing (1), keeping festival (1), observe (1 ... /hebrew/2287.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/975.htm">975. bachan -- a watchtower</a> ... tower. From bachan (in the sense of keeping a look-out); a watch-tower -- tower. see HEBREW bachan. 974, 975. bachan. 976 . Strong's Numbers. /hebrew/975.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/7674.htm">7674. shebeth -- perhaps cessation</a> ... Word Origin from shabath Definition perhaps cessation NASB Word Usage exterminated (1), keeping away (1), loss of time (1). cease, sit still, loss of time. ... /hebrew/7674.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2814.htm">2814. chashah -- to be silent, inactive, or still</a> ... root Definition to be silent, inactive, or still NASB Word Usage calmed (1), hushed (1), keep silent (4), keeping silent (1), kept (1), kept silent (1 ... /hebrew/2814.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/8104.htm">8104. shamar -- to keep, watch, preserve</a> ... guardsmen (1), have charge (1), heed to yourself and keep (1), heeds (1), hoarded (1), indignant (1), keep (156), keeper (8), keepers (2), keeping (10), keeps ... /hebrew/8104.htm - 7k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/flavel/on_keeping_the_heart/">On Keeping the Heart</a> On Keeping the Heart. <. On Keeping the Heart John Flavel. Table of Contents. Title Page. Introduction. First, I am to ... //christianbookshelf.org/flavel/on keeping the heart/<a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/keeping_and_kept.htm">Keeping and Kept</a> ... THE PROVERBS KEEPING AND KEPT. 'Keep thy ... possible. We must be kept by God, if we are ever to succeed in keeping our wayward hearts. I ... /.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/keeping and kept.htm<a href="/library/orr/how_to_live_a_holy_life/keeping_the_commandments.htm">Keeping the Commandments.</a> ... KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS. God's Word is pure. Heaven itself and ... of life. Keeping the commandments of God is man's whole duty. If ... /.../christianbookshelf.org/orr/how to live a holy life/keeping the commandments.htm<a href="/library/schaff/the_seven_ecumenical_councils/on_the_keeping_of_easter.htm">On the Keeping of Easter.</a> ... On the Keeping of Easter. From the Letter of the Emperor to all those not present at the Council. (Found in Eusebius, Vita Const., Lib. iii., 18-20.). ... /.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/on the keeping of easter.htm<a href="/library/origen/origens_commentary_on_the_gospel_of_matthew/22_the_dancing_of_herodias.htm">The Dancing of Herodias. The Keeping of Oaths.</a> ... Book X. 22. The Dancing of Herodias. The Keeping of Oaths. Wherefore John, endued with prophetic boldness and not terrified at the ... /.../origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/22 the dancing of herodias.htm<a href="/library/brownlie/hymns_of_the_early_church/herdsmen_keeping_lonely_vigil.htm">Herdsmen Keeping Lonely vigil</a> ... HYMNS OF THE EARLY CHURCH Herdsmen keeping lonely vigil. 8,7,8,7,7,7. Herdsmen keeping lonely vigil. While the earth in slumber lay; ... /.../brownlie/hymns of the early church/herdsmen keeping lonely vigil.htm<a href="/library/orr/how_to_live_a_holy_life/keeping_the_commandments_a_test.htm">Keeping the Commandments a Test of Love.</a> ... KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS A TEST OF LOVE. We are commanded to love God. It is the first and greatest commandment. Love is more than ... /.../orr/how to live a holy life/keeping the commandments a test.htm<a href="/library/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/the_true_manner_of_keeping.htm">The True Manner of Keeping Holy the Lord's Day.</a> ... THE PRACTICE OF PIETY. THE TRUE MANNER OF KEEPING HOLY THE LORD'S DAY. Now the sanctifying of the Sabbath consists in two things ... /.../bayly/the practice of piety/the true manner of keeping.htm<a href="/library/various/the_st_gregory_hymnal_and_catholic_choir_book/no_23_at_the_cross.htm">At the Cross Her Station Keeping</a> ... No. 23 At the Cross her station keeping. LENT AND PASSIONTIDE At the Cross her station keeping Stabat Mater. Jacopone da Todi. XIV Cent. ... /.../various/the st gregory hymnal and catholic choir book/no 23 at the cross.htm<a href="/library/gregory/gregory_of_nyssa_dogmatic_treatises_etc/chapter_xxvii_it_is_then.htm">It Is, Then, Completely in Keeping with This, that He who was Thus ...</a> ... IV."Apologetic Works. Chapter XXVII. It is, then, completely in keeping with this, that He Who was thus pouring Himself? It ... /.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter xxvii it is then.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/k/keeping.htm">Keeping (282 Occurrences)</a> ... 3. (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping. ... Multi-Version Concordance Keeping (282 Occurrences). ... /k/keeping.htm - 36k<a href="/topical/s/sabbath-keeping.htm">Sabbath-keeping (1 Occurrence)</a> Sabbath-keeping. Sabbatheus, Sabbath-keeping. Sabbath-produce . Multi-Version Concordance Sabbath-keeping (1 Occurrence). ... /s/sabbath-keeping.htm - 6k<a href="/topical/d/deposit.htm">Deposit (19 Occurrences)</a> ... 2. (n.) To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse. 3. (n.) To lodge in some one's ... /d/deposit.htm - 15k<a href="/topical/s/storage.htm">Storage (7 Occurrences)</a> ... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse. ... /s/storage.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/g/guarding.htm">Guarding (16 Occurrences)</a> ... bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison ... /g/guarding.htm - 10k<a href="/topical/t/tending.htm">Tending (11 Occurrences)</a> ... 1 Samuel 16:11 Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your children here?" He said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is keeping the sheep." Samuel said ... /t/tending.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/c/custody.htm">Custody (27 Occurrences)</a> ... 1. (n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. 2. (n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping. ... /c/custody.htm - 15k<a href="/topical/c/commands.htm">Commands (216 Occurrences)</a> ... John 14:21 he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will ... /c/commands.htm - 35k<a href="/topical/h/happiness.htm">Happiness (54 Occurrences)</a> ... YLT). Psalms 106:3 O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times. (YLT). Psalms 112:1 Praise ye Jah! ... /h/happiness.htm - 21k<a href="/topical/f/fearing.htm">Fearing (107 Occurrences)</a> ... Mark 6:20 for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and ... /f/fearing.htm - 35k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/keeping-secrets.html">What does the Bible say about keeping secrets? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Sabbath-keeping.html">Does God require Sabbath-keeping of Christians? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/five-pillars-Islam.html">Can keeping the Five Pillars of Islam get me to heaven? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/keeping.htm">Keeping: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Keeping (282 Occurrences)<a href="/matthew/3-8.htm">Matthew 3:8</a> Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance! (See NAS NIV)<a href="/matthew/16-11.htm">Matthew 16:11</a> How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? (BBE)<a href="/matthew/25-24.htm">Matthew 25:24</a> "But, next, the man who had the one talent in his keeping came and said, "'Sir, I knew you to be a severe man, reaping where you had not sown and garnering what you had not winnowed. (WEY)<a href="/matthew/27-54.htm">Matthew 27:54</a> As for the Captain and the soldiers who were with Him keeping guard over Jesus, when they witnessed the earthquake and the other occurrences they were filled with terror, and exclaimed, "Assuredly he was God's Son." (WEY NAS RSV)<a href="/mark/2-18.htm">Mark 2:18</a> (Now John's disciples and those of the Pharisees were keeping a fast.) (WEY)<a href="/mark/6-20.htm">Mark 6:20</a> for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly. (YLT)<a href="/mark/7-3.htm">Mark 7:3</a> Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them: (ASV)<a href="/mark/14-61.htm">Mark 14:61</a> and he was keeping silent, and did not answer anything. Again the chief priest was questioning him, and saith to him, 'Art thou the Christ -- the Son of the Blessed?' (YLT)<a href="/luke/1-6.htm">Luke 1:6</a> They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong. (BBE)<a href="/luke/2-8.htm">Luke 2:8</a> There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/2-24.htm">Luke 2:24</a> and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." (See NIV)<a href="/luke/2-51.htm">Luke 2:51</a> and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart, (YLT)<a href="/luke/3-8.htm">Luke 3:8</a> Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves,'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! (See NAS NIV)<a href="/luke/9-32.htm">Luke 9:32</a> Now Peter and the others were weighed down with sleep; but, keeping themselves awake all through, they saw His glory, and the two men standing with Him. (WEY)<a href="/luke/11-28.htm">Luke 11:28</a> And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping 'it'!' (YLT)<a href="/luke/17-7.htm">Luke 17:7</a> But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field,'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' (WEB ASV BBE RSV)<a href="/luke/17-12.htm">Luke 17:12</a> And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance, (BBE)<a href="/luke/18-13.htm">Luke 18:13</a> The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. (BBE)<a href="/john/14-21.htm">John 14:21</a> he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' (YLT)<a href="/john/17-12.htm">John 17:12</a> when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled. (YLT NAS)<a href="/john/18-16.htm">John 18:16</a> and Peter was standing at the door without, therefore went forth the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, and he spake to the female keeping the door, and he brought in Peter. (YLT)<a href="/john/18-17.htm">John 18:17</a> Then said the maid keeping the door to Peter, 'Art thou also of the disciples of this man?' he saith, 'I am not;' (YLT)<a href="/acts/8-36.htm">Acts 8:36</a> As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?" (WEB)<a href="/acts/10-30.htm">Acts 10:30</a> And Cornelius said, Four days ago, until this hour, I was keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house; and behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel, (ASV RSV)<a href="/acts/11-23.htm">Acts 11:23</a> Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts: (BBE)<a href="/acts/12-6.htm">Acts 12:6</a> And when Herod was about to take him out, the same night Peter was sleeping in chains between two armed men, and the watchmen were keeping watch before the door of the prison. (BBE YLT)<a href="/acts/14-18.htm">Acts 14:18</a> And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them. (See NIV)<a href="/acts/15-29.htm">Acts 15:29</a> to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell. (DBY YLT)<a href="/acts/18-18.htm">Acts 18:18</a> Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow. (See NAS)<a href="/acts/21-24.htm">Acts 21:24</a> Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law. (WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/acts/22-3.htm">Acts 22:3</a> I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today. (BBE)<a href="/acts/22-20.htm">Acts 22:20</a> and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of them that slew him. (ASV YLT RSV)<a href="/acts/26-5.htm">Acts 26:5</a> And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law. (BBE)<a href="/romans/2-27.htm">Romans 2:27</a> And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision. (BBE)<a href="/romans/5-19.htm">Romans 5:19</a> Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-19.htm">1 Corinthians 7:19</a> Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/16-2.htm">1 Corinthians 16:2</a> On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. (See NIV)<a href="/2_corinthians/8-5.htm">2 Corinthians 8:5</a> This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God. (See NIV)<a href="/2_corinthians/10-15.htm">2 Corinthians 10:15</a> We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that, as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you--still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger field of labour, (WEY)<a href="/galatians/6-1.htm">Galatians 6:1</a> Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested. (BBE)<a href="/ephesians/1-16.htm">Ephesians 1:16</a> Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers; (BBE)<a href="/ephesians/6-18.htm">Ephesians 6:18</a> With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints, (BBE)<a href="/philippians/2-4.htm">Philippians 2:4</a> Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others. (BBE)<a href="/colossians/4-2.htm">Colossians 4:2</a> Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise; (BBE NAS)<a href="/1_thessalonians/1-2.htm">1 Thessalonians 1:2</a> We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers; (BBE)<a href="/2_thessalonians/2-6.htm">2 Thessalonians 2:6</a> And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen. (BBE YLT)<a href="/2_thessalonians/2-7.htm">2 Thessalonians 2:7</a> For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way. (BBE YLT)<a href="/1_timothy/1-18.htm">1 Timothy 1:18</a> This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare; (See NIV)<a href="/1_timothy/1-19.htm">1 Timothy 1:19</a> Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith: (BBE NAS)<a href="/1_timothy/3-4.htm">1 Timothy 3:4</a> one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; (See NAS RSV)<a href="/1_timothy/3-9.htm">1 Timothy 3:9</a> Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin. (BBE)<a href="/1_timothy/5-22.htm">1 Timothy 5:22</a> Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure; (YLT)<a href="/2_timothy/1-4.htm">2 Timothy 1:4</a> Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy; (BBE)<a href="/titus/1-9.htm">Titus 1:9</a> Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters. (BBE)<a href="/philemon/1-13.htm">Philemon 1:13</a> whom I was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings; (DBY)<a href="/hebrews/2-17.htm">Hebrews 2:17</a> Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people. (BBE)<a href="/hebrews/10-25.htm">Hebrews 10:25</a> Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near. (BBE)<a href="/hebrews/13-17.htm">Hebrews 13:17</a> Obey your leaders and be submissive to them. For they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give account; that they may do this with joy and not with lamentation. For that would be of no advantage to you. (WEY RSV)<a href="/james/2-8.htm">James 2:8</a> If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly. (WEY)<a href="/james/4-11.htm">James 4:11</a> Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. (See NIV)<a href="/james/5-4.htm">James 5:4</a> I tell you that the pay of the labourers who have gathered in your crops--pay which you are keeping back--is calling out against you; and the outcries of those who have been your reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of Heaven. (WEY)<a href="/james/5-8.htm">James 5:8</a> So you also must be patient: keeping up your courage; for the Coming of the Lord is now close at hand. (WEY)<a href="/1_peter/3-16.htm">1 Peter 3:16</a> Yet argue modestly and cautiously, keeping your consciences free from guilt, so that, when you are spoken against, those who slander your good Christian lives may be put to shame. (WEY NIV)<a href="/1_peter/4-19.htm">1 Peter 4:19</a> Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. (KJV WBS)<a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4</a> For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement. (WEY)<a href="/2_peter/3-9.htm">2 Peter 3:9</a> The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways. (BBE NIV)<a href="/1_john/2-4.htm">1 John 2:4</a> he who is saying, 'I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not; (YLT)<a href="/1_john/3-24.htm">1 John 3:24</a> and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us. (YLT)<a href="/1_john/5-3.htm">1 John 5:3</a> For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard. (BBE)<a href="/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6</a> And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it. (BBE)<a href="/revelation/1-3.htm">Revelation 1:3</a> Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the time is nigh! (YLT)<a href="/revelation/2-26.htm">Revelation 2:26</a> and he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end my works, I will give to him authority over the nations, (YLT)<a href="/revelation/3-3.htm">Revelation 3:3</a> Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee. (YLT)<a href="/revelation/7-1.htm">Revelation 7:1</a> After this I saw four angels in their places at the four points of the earth, keeping back the four winds in their hands, so that there might be no moving of the wind on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. (BBE)<a href="/revelation/12-17.htm">Revelation 12:17</a> and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ. (YLT)<a href="/revelation/14-12.htm">Revelation 14:12</a> Here is endurance of the saints: here 'are' those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.' (YLT)<a href="/revelation/16-15.htm">Revelation 16:15</a> lo, I do come as a thief; happy 'is' he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' -- (WBS NAS)<a href="/revelation/22-7.htm">Revelation 22:7</a> Lo, I come quickly; happy 'is' he who is keeping the words of the prophecy of this scroll.' (YLT)<a href="/revelation/22-9.htm">Revelation 22:9</a> and he saith to me, 'See -- not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.' (YLT)<a href="/genesis/19-19.htm">Genesis 19:19</a> See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; (BBE)<a href="/genesis/37-16.htm">Genesis 37:16</a> And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/39-6.htm">Genesis 39:6</a> And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/41-49.htm">Genesis 41:49</a> Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number. (See NIV)<a href="/exodus/3-1.htm">Exodus 3:1</a> Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb. (WEB JPS ASV RSV)<a href="/exodus/5-5.htm">Exodus 5:5</a> And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work. (BBE)<a href="/exodus/9-2.htm">Exodus 9:2</a> for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them, (YLT)<a href="/exodus/15-26.htm">Exodus 15:26</a> And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver. (BBE)<a href="/exodus/20-6.htm">Exodus 20:6</a> and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands. (YLT)<a href="/exodus/20-8.htm">Exodus 20:8</a> Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. (See NIV)<a href="/exodus/22-10.htm">Exodus 22:10</a> If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it: (BBE NIV)<a href="/exodus/28-35.htm">Exodus 28:35</a> Aaron is to put it on for his holy work; and the sound of it will be clear, when he goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out, keeping him safe from death. (BBE)<a href="/exodus/34-7.htm">Exodus 34:7</a> keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)<a href="/exodus/39-21.htm">Exodus 39:21</a> And the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord, keeping it in place over the band, so that the bag might not get loose, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/3-28.htm">Numbers 3:28</a> According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary. (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT)<a href="/numbers/3-38.htm">Numbers 3:38</a> Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)<a href="/numbers/5-15.htm">Numbers 5:15</a> Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/6-6.htm">Numbers 6:6</a> All days of his keeping separate to Jehovah, near a dead person he doth not go; (YLT)<a href="/numbers/9-13.htm">Numbers 9:13</a> But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he brought not the offering of the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. (See RSV)<a href="/numbers/31-30.htm">Numbers 31:30</a> And from the sons of Israel's half thou dost take one possession out of fifty, of man, of the herd, of the asses, and of the flock, of all the cattle, and thou hast given them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.' (YLT)<a href="/numbers/31-47.htm">Numbers 31:47</a> Moses taketh from the sons of Israel's half the one possession from the fifty, of man and of beast, and giveth them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. 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