For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.
Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.
For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.
So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.
If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;
Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.
He has kept in mind his mercy and his unchanging faith to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.
And he said to me, Let not the words of this prophet's book be kept secret, because the time is near.
Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth.
But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me.
I have knowledge of your works (see, I have put before you an open door which may be shut by no one), and that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have been true to my name.
And when the fifth stamp was undone, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for the word of God, and for the witness which they kept.
You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.
Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.
For which reason I was frequently kept from coming to you:
So that I may be kept safe from those in Judaea who have not put themselves under the rule of God, and that the help which I am taking for Jerusalem may be pleasing to the saints;
Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,
So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.
Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.
The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.
A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;
Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.
And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from between his teeth; and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem.
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