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keep

Meaning of “keep”

To guard, watch, protect, preserve, secure, retain, possess, hold, maintain, support, tend, manage, observe, obey, fulfil, celebrate, continue in, refrain from, or remain faithful to a person, place, trust, command, promise, way, time, or thing.

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362 occurrences354 verses52 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:15

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Showing verses 341–350 of 354 · 362 word occurrences in this result

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · James 1:27 · retained source text

Pure religion and vndefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherlesse and widowes in their affliction, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted from the world.

1 John 2:3
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 John 2:3 · retained source text

And hereby wee doe knowe that we know him, if we keepe his commandements.

1 John 3:22
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 John 3:22 · retained source text

And whatsoeuer we aske, wee receiue of him, because we keepe his commandement, and doe those things that are pleasing in his sight.

1 John 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 John 5:2 · retained source text

By this wee know that wee loue the children of God, when we loue God and keepe his commandements.

1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 John 5:3 · retained source text

For this is the loue of God, that we keepe his commandements, and his commandements are not grieuous.

1 John 5:21
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 John 5:21 · retained source text

Little children, keepe your selues from Idoles. Amen.

Jude 1:21
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jude 1:21 · retained source text

Keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Iesus Christ vnto eternall life.

Jude 1:24
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jude 1:24 · retained source text

Now vnto him that is able to keepe you from falling, and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glory with exceeding ioy,

Revelation 1:3
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Revelation 1:3 · retained source text

Blessed is hee that readeth, and they that heare the words of this prophesie, and keepe those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

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