Kept

Then I kept watching because of the arrogant words the horn was speaking. As I continued to watch, the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.

Thus ends the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face turned pale. But I kept the matter to myself.”

Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”

But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

And sitting down, they kept watch over Him there.

Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.

For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”

But He kept looking around to see who had done this.

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

So they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead.

“Teacher,” he replied, “all these I have kept from my youth.”

But Peter kept insisting, “Even if I have to die with You, I will never deny You.” And all the others said the same thing.

They kept striking His head with a staff and spitting on Him. And they knelt down and bowed before Him.

When he came out and was unable to speak to them, they realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making signs to them but remained unable to speak.

And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.

“I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this man I hear such things about?” And he kept trying to see Jesus.

After the voice had spoken, only Jesus was present with them. The disciples kept this to themselves, and in those days they did not tell anyone what they had seen.

Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”

And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

“All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.

They blindfolded Him and kept demanding, “Prophesy! Who hit You?”

But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”

…but they kept shouting, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”

A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.

But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.

Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.

Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”

But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”

They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”

“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.

Since Judas kept the money bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.

If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”

I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.”

With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself, but brought a portion and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

…you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.

We sought out the disciples in Tyre and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they kept telling Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, “Away with him!”

…he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.

Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.

…and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.

Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pass.

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:

And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

I know your deeds. Behold, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. I know that you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name.

Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.