To keep/guard

Usually translated “keeping”, “have kept” and “shall keep”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• keeping 3
• i have kept 2
• shall keep 2
• to guard 2
• to keep 2
• do keep 2
• being kept 1
• may guard 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 8
• Luke 6
• John 3
• 2 Timothy 3
• 1 Timothy 2
• 2 Peter 2

13 books in all.

• 1 Timothy 5:21In contextI charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
• 1 Timothy 6:20In contextO Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
• 2 Peter 2:5In contextAnd spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
• 2 Peter 3:17In contextYe therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
• Jude 1:24In contextNow unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
• Matthew 19:20The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “keeping” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.