Lexicon :: Strong's G5083 - tēreō

“Why do you ask me about what is good? ”[fn] he said to him. “There is only one who is good.[fn] If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

“Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do, because they don’t practice what they teach.

Then they sat down and were guarding him there.

When the centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this man was the Son of God! ”

The guards were so shaken by fear of him that they became like dead men.

“teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember,[fn] I am with you always,[fn] to the end of the age.”

and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

“Truly I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”

“You do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I don’t know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I keep his word.

Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs? ” And there was a division among them.

Jesus answered, “Leave her alone; she has kept it for the day of my burial.

“If you love me, you will keep[fn] my commands.

“The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

“If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

“Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

“I have revealed your name to the people you gave me from the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

“I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect[fn] them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.

“I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.

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

But some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

After they had severely flogged them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to guard them carefully.

He ordered that the centurion keep Paul under guard, though he could have some freedom, and that he should not prevent any of his friends from meeting[fn] his needs.

Festus, however, answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to go there shortly.

“But when Paul appealed to be held for trial by the Emperor,[fn] I ordered him to be kept in custody until I could send him to Caesar.”

But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep her as his fiancée, will do well.

When I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, since the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have kept myself, and will keep myself, from burdening you in any way.

making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

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

Don’t be too quick to appoint[fn] anyone as an elder, and don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

to keep this command without fault or failure until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

For whoever keeps the entire law, and yet stumbles at one point, is guilty of breaking it all.

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.

For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell[fn] and delivered them in chains[fn] of utter darkness to be kept for judgment;

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

These people are springs without water, mists driven by a storm. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.

By the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commands.

and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.

The one who keeps his commands remains in him, and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he has given us.

For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the one who is born of God keeps him,[fn] and the evil one does not touch him.