Lexicon :: Strong's G5442 - phylassō

“I have kept all these,”[fn] the young man told him. “What do I still lack? ”

He said to him, “Teacher, I have kept all these from my youth.”

In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock.

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.

“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his estate, his possessions are secure.

He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

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

“The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

“If anyone hears my words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

“While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction,[fn] so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

“You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”

After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

As they traveled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for the people to observe.

“Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay for them to get their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that what they were told about you amounts to nothing, but that you yourself are also careful about observing the law.

“And when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood there giving approval[fn] and guarding the clothes of those who killed him.’

he said, “I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers also get here.” He ordered that he be kept under guard in Herod’s palace.[fn]

When we entered Rome,[fn] Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

So if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

For even the circumcised don’t keep the law themselves, and yet they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.

But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing out of favoritism.

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding irreverent and empty speech and contradictions from what is falsely called knowledge.

and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me[fn] until that day.

Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

Watch out for him yourself because he strongly opposed our words.

and if he didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,[fn] when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly;

Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard, so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stable position.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,