Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Kept’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Kept’ occurs 108 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 20:6 And God said to him: “And I know that you have acted with a sincere heart. And therefore I kept you from sinning against me, and I did not release you to touch her.Genesis 20:6
Genesis 26:5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed the ceremonies and the laws.”Genesis 26:5
Genesis 39:20 And he delivered Joseph into prison, where the prisoners of the king were kept, and he was enclosed in that place.Genesis 39:20
Genesis 41:35 that now have already begun to occur, be gathered into storehouses. And let all the grain be stored away, under the power of Pharaoh, and let it be kept in the cities.Genesis 41:35
Genesis 42:4 Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brothers, “Lest perhaps he may suffer harm on the journey.”Genesis 42:4
Number of the word / term Kept in Genesis: 5
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and so they did not act according to the precept of the king of Egypt, but they kept the males safe.Exodus 1:17
Exodus 16:30 And the people kept the Sabbath on the seventh day.Exodus 16:30
Exodus 16:32 Then Moses said: “This is the word that the Lord has instructed: Fill an omer of it, and let it be kept for future generations hereafter, so that they may know the bread, with which I nourished you in the wilderness, when you had been led away from the land of Egypt.”Exodus 16:32
Exodus 38:8 He also made the washtub of brass, with its base made from the mirrors of the women who kept watch at the door of the tabernacle.Exodus 38:8
Number of the word / term Kept in Exodus: 4
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 13:32 and on the seventh day he shall examine it. If the spot has not increased, and the hair has kept its color, and the place of the mark is equal with the rest of the flesh,Leviticus 13:32
Number of the word / term Kept in Leviticus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 9:19 And if it happened that it remained for a long time over it, the sons of Israel kept the night watches of the Lord, and they did not advance,Numbers 9:19
Numbers 9:23 By the word of the Lord they fixed their tents, and by his word they advanced. And they kept the night watches of the Lord, according to his command by the hand of Moses.Numbers 9:23
Numbers 17:10 And the Lord said to Moses: “Carry back the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the testimony, so that it may be kept there as a sign of the rebellion of the sons of Israel, and so that their complaints may be quieted before me, lest they die.”Numbers 17:10
Numbers 30:3 If a woman, who is in her father’s house, vows anything, or binds herself by an oath, and she is still in a state of childhood, if her father knew of the vow which she has promised or of the oath by which she has obligated her soul, and he kept silent, she shall be liable to the vow:Numbers 30:3
Number of the word / term Kept in Numbers: 4
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 7:8 But it is because the Lord has loved you, and has kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers. And he has led you away with a strong hand, and he has redeemed you from the house of servitude, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.Deuteronomy 7:8
Deuteronomy 33:9 He has said to his father and to his mother, ‘I do not know you,’ and to his brothers, ‘I will disregard you.’ And they have not known their own sons. Such as these have kept your word and have observed your covenant:Deuteronomy 33:9
Number of the word / term Kept in Deuteronomy: 2
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 5:10 And the sons of Israel stayed at Gilgal, and they kept the Passover, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of Jericho.Joshua 5:10
Number of the word / term Kept in Joshua: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Judges
Judges 2:22 so that, by them, I may test Israel, as to whether or not they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, just as their fathers kept it.”Judges 2:22
Judges 8:27 And Gideon made an ephod from these, and he kept it in his city, Ophrah. And all of Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gideon and to all his house.Judges 8:27
Judges 11:1 At that time, there was a Gileadite, Jephthah, a very strong man and a fighter, the son of a kept woman, and he was born of Gilead.Judges 11:1
Number of the word / term Kept in Judges: 3
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Ruth
Ruth 2:20 Naomi answered her, “May he be blessed by the Lord, because the same kindness which he provided for the living, he also kept for the dead.” And again she said: “This man is our near relative.”Ruth 2:20
Number of the word / term Kept in Ruth: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul: “You have acted foolishly. You have not kept the commandments of the Lord your God, which he instructed to you. And if you had not acted in this way, the Lord would, here and now, have prepared your kingdom over Israel forever.1 Samuel 13:13
1 Samuel 13:14 But by no means shall your kingdom rise up any more. The Lord has sought for himself a man according to his own heart. And him the Lord has instructed to be the leader over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord has instructed.”1 Samuel 13:14
1 Samuel 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as your soul lives, and as the Lord lives, who has kept your hand to yourself, and has prevented you from coming to blood: now, let your enemies be like Nabal, and like all those who are seeking evil for my lord.1 Samuel 25:26
Number of the word / term Kept in 1 Samuel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 22:22 For I have kept to the ways of the Lord, and I have not acted impiously before my God.2 Samuel 22:22
Number of the word / term Kept in 2 Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 2:43 Then why have you not kept the oath to the Lord, and the commandment which I instructed to you?”1 Kings 2:43
1 Kings 3:6 And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to your servant David, my father, because he walked in your sight in truth and justice, and with an upright heart before you. And you have kept your great mercy for him, and you have given him a son sitting upon his throne, just as it is this day.1 Kings 3:6
1 Kings 11:11 And so, the Lord said to Solomon: “Because you have this with you, and because you have not kept my covenant and my precepts, which I commanded to you, I will tear apart your kingdom, and I will give it to your servant.1 Kings 11:11
1 Kings 11:34 But I will not take the entire kingdom from his hand. Instead, I will establish him as the ruler during all the days of his life, for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my precepts.1 Kings 11:34
1 Kings 14:8 and I tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and I gave it to you, yet you have not been like David, my servant, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with his whole heart, doing what was pleasing in my sight.1 Kings 14:8
Number of the word / term Kept in 1 Kings: 5
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 12:9 And the high priest, Jehoiada, took a certain chest, and he opened a hole in the top, and he placed it beside the altar, to the right of those who were entering the house of the Lord. And the priests who kept the doors put all the money in it which was being brought into the temple of the Lord.2 Kings 12:9
2 Kings 23:22 Now no similar Passover was kept, from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, and from all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah,2 Kings 23:22
2 Kings 23:23 as this Passover, which was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josiah.2 Kings 23:23
Number of the word / term Kept in 2 Kings: 3
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 7:8 Therefore, Solomon kept the solemnity, at that time, for seven days, and all of Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath, even to the torrent of Egypt.2 Chronicles 7:8
2 Chronicles 30:5 And they resolved that they would send messengers to all of Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, so that they might come and keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem. For many had not kept it, just as it was prescribed by the law.2 Chronicles 30:5
2 Chronicles 30:21 And the sons of Israel who were found at Jerusalem kept the solemnity of unleavened bread for seven days with great rejoicing, praising the Lord throughout each day, with the Levites and the priests, accompanied by the musical instruments corresponding to their office.2 Chronicles 30:21
2 Chronicles 35:1 Now Josiah kept the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was immolated on the fourteenth day of the first month.2 Chronicles 35:1
2 Chronicles 35:15 Now the singers, the sons of Asaph, were standing in their order, according to the instruction of David, and of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the prophets of the king. Truly, the porters kept watch at each gate, so as not to depart from their ministry even for one moment. And for this reason, their brothers, the Levites, prepared foods for them.2 Chronicles 35:15
2 Chronicles 35:17 And the sons of Israel, who had been found there, kept the Passover at that time, with the solemnity of unleavened bread, for seven days.2 Chronicles 35:17
2 Chronicles 36:21 and the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah would be fulfilled, and the land would celebrate her Sabbaths. For during all the days of the desolation, she kept a Sabbath, until the seventy years were completed.2 Chronicles 36:21
Number of the word / term Kept in 2 Chronicles: 7
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Ezra
Ezra 3:4 And they kept the solemnity of tabernacles, just as it was written, and the holocaust of each day in order, according to the precept, the work of each day in its time.Ezra 3:4
Ezra 6:19 Then the sons of Israel of the transmigration kept the Passover, on the fourteenth day of the first month.Ezra 6:19
Ezra 6:22 and kept the solemnity of unleavened bread for seven days with joy. For the Lord had made them joyful, and he had converted the heart of the king of Assur to them, so that he would assist their hands in the work of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel.Ezra 6:22
Number of the word / term Kept in Ezra: 3
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 1:7 We have been seduced by vanity. And we have not kept your commandments and ceremonies and judgments, which you have instructed to your servant Moses.Nehemiah 1:7
Nehemiah 8:18 Now he read in the book of the law of God, throughout each day, from the first day even to the very last day. And they kept the solemnity for seven days. And on the eighth day, there was a gathering according to the ritual.Nehemiah 8:18
Nehemiah 12:45 And they kept the vigil of their God, and the vigil of expiation, with the singing men and the gatekeepers, in accord with the precept of David, and of Solomon, his son.Nehemiah 12:45
Number of the word / term Kept in Nehemiah: 3
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Esther
Esther 2:11 He went for a walk every day, in the front courtyard of the house in which the chosen virgins were kept, having concern for Esther’s welfare and wanting to know what would happen to her.Esther 2:11
Number of the word / term Kept in Esther: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Job
Job 3:26 Have I not remained hidden? Have I not kept silence? Have I not remained calm? Yet indignation has overcome me.Job 3:26
Job 23:11 My feet have been following his footsteps; I have kept to his way and have not strayed from it.Job 23:11
Job 29:2 Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?Job 29:2
Job 31:3 Is not destruction held for the wicked and repudiation kept for those who work injustice?Job 31:3
Job 32:6 And so Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite responded by saying: I am younger in years, and you are more ancient; therefore, I kept my head low, for I was afraid to reveal to you my opinion.Job 32:6
Job 33:11 He has put my feet in fetters; he has kept watch over all my ways.”Job 33:11
Number of the word / term Kept in Job: 6
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 17:4 Therefore, may my mouth not speak the works of men. I have kept to difficult ways because of the words of your lips.Psalm 17:4
Psalm 37:28 For the Lord loves judgment, and he will not abandon his saints. They will be kept safe in eternity. The unjust will be punished, and the offspring of the impious will perish.Psalm 37:28
Psalm 78:10 They have not kept the covenant of God. And they were not willing to walk in his law.Psalm 78:10
Psalm 99:7 He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies and the precept that he gave them.Psalm 99:7
Psalm 102:7 I have kept vigil, and I have become like a solitary sparrow on a roof.Psalm 102:7
Psalm 105:42 For he had called to mind his holy word, which he kept near to his servant Abraham.Psalm 105:42
Psalm 119:4 You have ordered your commandments to be kept most diligently.Psalm 119:4
Psalm 119:55 During the night, I remembered your name, O Lord, and I kept your law.Psalm 119:55
Psalm 119:67 Before I was humbled, I committed offenses; because of this, I have kept to your word.Psalm 119:67
Psalm 119:136 My eyes have gushed like springs of water, because they have not kept your law.Psalm 119:136
Psalm 119:158 I saw the prevaricators, and I pine away. For they have not kept your word.Psalm 119:158
Psalm 119:167 My soul has kept to your testimonies and has loved them exceedingly.Psalm 119:167
Number of the word / term Kept in Psalm: 12
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 5:20 Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?Proverbs 5:20
Number of the word / term Kept in Proverbs: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is even another most burdensome infirmity, which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept to the harm of the owner.Ecclesiastes 5:13
Number of the word / term Kept in Ecclesiastes: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Song
Song of Solomon 1:6 Do not be concerned that I am dark, for the sun has changed my color. The sons of my mother have fought against me. They have made me the keeper of the vineyards. My own vineyard I have not kept.Song of Solomon 1:6
Song of Solomon 7:13 The mandrakes yield their fragrance. At our gates is every fruit. The new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for you.Song of Solomon 7:13
Number of the word / term Kept in Song: 2
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 34:15 In that place, the hedgehog has kept its den, and has raised its young, and has dug around them, and has kept them warm in its shadow. In that place, the birds of prey have joined together, one to another.Isaiah 34:15
Number of the word / term Kept in Isaiah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 8:7 The hawk in the heavens has known her time. The turtledove, and the swallow, and the stork have kept the time of their arrival. But my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.Jeremiah 8:7
Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the insults of many, and terror all around: ‘Persecute him!’ and, ‘Let us persecute him!’ from all the men who had been at peace with me and who had kept watch by my side. ‘If only there were some way that he might be deceived, and we might prevail against him and obtain vengeance from him!’Jeremiah 20:10
Jeremiah 35:18 Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab, your father, and have kept all his precepts, and have done all that he has instructed you,Jeremiah 35:18
Number of the word / term Kept in Jeremiah: 3
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 18:9 if he has walked in my precepts and kept my judgments, so that he acts in accord with truth, then he is just; he shall certainly live, says the Lord God.Ezekiel 18:9
Ezekiel 23:44 And they entered to her, as if to a kept woman. So did they enter to Oholah and Oholibah, nefarious women.Ezekiel 23:44
Number of the word / term Kept in Ezekiel: 2
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Daniel
Daniel 9:14 And the Lord kept watch over the evil and has led it over us; the Lord, our God, is just in all his works, which he has accomplished, for we have not listened to his voice.Daniel 9:14
Number of the word / term Kept in Daniel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Amos
Amos 2:4 Thus says the Lord: For three wicked deeds of Judah, and for four, I will not convert him, in so far as he has rejected the law of the Lord and has not kept his commandments. For their idols, which their fathers followed, have deceived them.Amos 2:4
Number of the word / term Kept in Amos: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Micah
Micah 1:7 And all her graven images will be cut to pieces, and all her rewards will be burned with fire, and I will place all her idols in perdition. For they have been gathered together from the pay of a kept woman, and even to the pay of a kept woman, they will return.Micah 1:7
Micah 6:16 For you have kept the precepts of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked according their wills, so that I should give you over to perdition and its hissing inhabitants, and you would carry the disgrace of my people.Micah 6:16
Number of the word / term Kept in Micah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Nahum
Nahum 3:4 Because of the multitude of fornications of the kept woman, beautiful and pleasing and practicing evil deeds, who sold nations by her fornications, and families by her evil doing:Nahum 3:4
Number of the word / term Kept in Nahum: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Malachi
Malachi 3:7 For, from the days of your fathers, you have withdrawn from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. And you have said, “In what way, shall we return?”Malachi 3:7
Malachi 3:14 And you have said, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “He labors in vain who serves God,” and, “What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?Malachi 3:14
Number of the word / term Kept in Malachi: 2
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 6:9 Therefore, you shall pray in this way: Our Father, who is in heaven: May your name be kept holy.Matthew 6:9
Matthew 19:20 The young man said to him: “All these I have kept from my childhood. What is still lacking for me?”Matthew 19:20
Number of the word / term Kept in Matthew: 2
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Mark
Mark 9:10 And they kept the word to themselves, arguing about what “after he will have risen from the dead” might mean.Mark 9:10
Number of the word / term Kept in Mark: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Luke
Luke 2:19 But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.Luke 2:19
Luke 2:51 And he descended with them and went to Nazareth. And he was subordinate to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.Luke 2:51
Luke 11:2 And he said to them: “When you are praying, say: Father, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come.Luke 11:2
Luke 14:4 But they kept silent. Yet truly, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.Luke 14:4
Luke 18:21 And he said, “I have kept all these things from my youth.”Luke 18:21
Luke 19:20 And another approached, saying: ‘Lord, behold your one pound, which I kept stored in a cloth.Luke 19:20
Number of the word / term Kept in Luke: 6
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book John
John 2:10 and he said to him: “Every man offers the good wine first, and then, when they have become inebriated, he offers what is worse. But you have kept the good wine until now.”John 2:10
John 8:51 Amen, amen, I say to you, if anyone will have kept my word, he will not see death for eternity.”John 8:51
John 8:52 Therefore, the Jews said: “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets; and yet you say, ‘If anyone will have kept my word, he shall not taste death for eternity.’John 8:52
John 12:47 And if anyone has heard my words and not kept them, I do not judge him. For I did not come so that I may judge the world, but so that I may save the world.John 12:47
John 15:10 If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father’s precepts and I abide in his love.John 15:10
John 15:20 Remember my saying that I told you: The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.John 15:20
John 17:6 I have manifested your name to the men whom you have given to me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me. And they have kept your word.John 17:6
Number of the word / term Kept in John: 7
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Acts
Acts 7:19 This one, encompassing our kindred, afflicted our fathers, so that they would expose their infants, lest they be kept alive.Acts 7:19
Acts 7:53 You received the law by the actions of Angels, and yet you have not kept it.”Acts 7:53
Acts 16:4 And as they were traveling through the cities, they delivered to them the dogmas to be kept, which were decreed by the Apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.Acts 16:4
Acts 23:35 “I will hear you, when your accusers have arrived.” And he ordered him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.Acts 23:35
Acts 24:22 Then Felix, after having ascertained much knowledge about this Way, kept them waiting, by saying, “When Lysias the tribune has arrived, I will give you a hearing.”Acts 24:22
Acts 25:4 But Festus responded that Paul was to be kept in Caesarea, and that he himself would soon go there.Acts 25:4
Acts 25:21 But since Paul was appealing to be kept for a decision before Augustus, I ordered him to be kept, until I might send him to Caesar.”Acts 25:21
Number of the word / term Kept in Acts: 7
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Romans
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit by the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I have kept a remembrance of youRomans 1:9
Number of the word / term Kept in Romans: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book 2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.2 Corinthians 11:9
Number of the word / term Kept in 2 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Kept’ in the book Revelation
Revelation 3:10 Since you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall overcome the whole world in order to test those living upon the earth.Revelation 3:10
Number of the word / term ‘Kept’ in Revelation: 1
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 108
