Verb tēreō (to keep) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

19: 17And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep (tēreō) the commandments."
23: 3therefore, do whatever they teach you and keep (tēreō) it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
27: 36then they sat down there and kept (tēreō) watch over him.
27: 54Now when the centurion and those with him, who were keeping (tēreō) watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were terrified and said, "Truly this man was God's Son!"
28: 4From fear those keeping (tēreō) watch over him shook and became like dead men.
28: 20and teaching them to keep (tēreō) everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

John

2: 10and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept (tēreō) the good wine until now."
8: 51Very truly, I tell you, whoever keeps (tēreō) my word will never see death."
8: 52The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, 'Whoever keeps (tēreō) my word will never taste death.'
8: 55though you do not know him. But I know him; if I would say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and I keep (tēreō) his word.
9: 16Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep (tēreō) the sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And they were divided.
12: 7Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep (tēreō) it for the day of my burial.
14: 15"If you love me, you will keep (tēreō) my commandments.
14: 21They who have my commandments and keep (tēreō) them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them."
14: 23Jesus answered him, "Those who love me will keep (tēreō) my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
14: 24Whoever does not love me does not keep (tēreō) my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me.
15: 10If you keep (tēreō) my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept (tēreō) my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
15: 20Remember the word that I said to you, 'Servants are not greater than their master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept (tēreō) my word, they will keep (tēreō) yours also.
17: 6"I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept (tēreō) your word.
17: 11And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep (tēreō) them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.
17: 12While I was with them, I kept (tēreō) them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.
17: 15I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to keep (tēreō) them from the evil one.

Acts

12: 5While Peter was kept (tēreō) in prison, the church prayed fervently to God for him.
12: 6The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping (tēreō) watch over the prison.
15: 5But some believers who belonged to the sect of the Pharisees stood up and said, "It is necessary for them to be circumcised and ordered to keep (tēreō) the law of Moses."
16: 23After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep (tēreō) them securely.
24: 23Then he ordered the centurion to keep (tēreō) him in custody, but to let him have some liberty and not to prevent any of his friends from taking care of his needs.
25: 4Festus replied that Paul was being kept (tēreō) at Caesarea, and that he himself intended to go there shortly.
25: 21But when Paul had appealed to be kept (tēreō) in custody for the decision of his Imperial Majesty, I ordered him to be kept (tēreō) until I could send him to the emperor."

1 John

2: 3Now by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep (tēreō) his commandments.
2: 4Whoever says, "I have come to know him," but does not keep (tēreō) his commandments, is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;
2: 5but whoever keeps (tēreō) his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we may be sure that we are in him:
3: 22and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep (tēreō) his commandments and do what pleases him.
3: 24All who keep (tēreō) his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.
5: 3For the love of God is this, that we keep (tēreō) his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,
5: 18We know that those who are born of God do not sin, but the one who was born of God keeps (tēreō) them, and the evil one does not touch them.