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“justification”: Paul is occupied with a right relationship with God, James, with right
conduct. Paul testifies that the ungodly can be “justified” by faith, James that only the
right-doer is “justified.” See also under
RIGHTEOUS
,
RIGHTEOUSNESS
.
K
KEEP, KEEPING (Noun)
A. Verbs.
1.
(
$!
, 5083) denotes (a) “to watch over, preserve, keep, watch,” e.g., Acts
12:5, 6; 16:23; in 25:21,
RV
(1st part), “kept” (
KJV
, “reserved”); the present participle is
translated “keepers” in Matt. 28:4, lit. “the keeping (ones)”; it is used of the “keeping”
power of God the Father and Christ, exercised over His people, John 17:11, 12, 15; 1
Thess. 5:23, “preserved”; 1 John 5:18, where “He that was begotten of God,”
RV
, is said
of Christ as the Keeper (“keepeth him,”
RV
, for
KJV
, “keepeth himself”); Jude 1,
RV
,
“kept for Jesus Christ” (
KJV
, “preserved in Jesus Christ”), Rev. 3:10; of their inheritance,
1 Pet. 1:4 (“reserved”); of judicial reservation by God in view of future doom, 2 Pet. 2:4,
9, 17; 3:7; Jude 6, 13; of “keeping” the faith, 2 Tim. 4:7; the unity of the Spirit, Eph. 4:3;
oneself, 2 Cor. 11:9; 1 Tim. 5:22; Jas. 1:27; figuratively, one’s garments, Rev. 16:15; (b)
“to observe, to give heed to,” as of keeping commandments, etc., e.g., Matt. 19:17; John
14:15; 15:10; 17:6; Jas. 2:10; 1 John 2:3, 4, 5; 3:22, 24; 5:2 (in some mss.), 3; Rev. 1:3;
2:26; 3:8, 10; 12:17; 14:12; 22:7, 9. See
RESERVE
.
2.
(
$!
, 1301), “to keep carefully” ( , intensive, and No. 1), is said
of “the mother of Jesus,” in keeping His sayings in her heart, Luke 2:51, and of the
command of the apostles and elders in Jerusalem to gentile converts in the churches to
“keep” themselves from the evils mentioned in Acts 15:29.¶
3.
$
(
$!
, 4933) denotes “to preserve, keep safe, keep close” (
$
,
“together with,” used intensively, and No. 1), in Luke 2:19, as in v. 51 (see No. 2, above),
of the mother of Jesus in regard to the words of the shepherds; in Mark 6:20 it is used of
Herod’s preservation of John the Baptist from Herodias,
RV
, “kept (him) safe,”
KJV
,
“observed (him)” (marg., “kept”); in Matt. 9:17 (in some mss., Luke 5:38), of the
preservation of wineskins. See
OBSERVE
,
PRESERVE
.¶
4.
$
(
1
, 5442) denotes (a) “to guard, watch, keep watch,” e.g., Luke
2:8; in the passive voice, 8:29; (b) “to keep by way of protection,” e.g., Luke 11:21; John
12:25; 17:12 (2nd part; No. 1 in 1st part and in v. 11); (c) metaphorically, “to keep a law
precept,” etc., e.g., Matt. 19:20 and Luke 18:21, “have observed”; Luke 11:28; John
12:47 (in the best mss.); Acts 7:53; 16:4; 21:24; Rom. 2:26; Gal. 6:13; 1 Tim. 5:21
(“observe”); in the middle voice, Mark 10:20 (“have observed”); (d) in the middle voice,
“to keep oneself from,” Acts 21:25; elsewhere translated by the verb “to beware.” See
BEWARE
, No. 3,
GUARD
, B, No. 1.
¶ Indicates that all the NT occurrences of the Greek word under consideration are
mentioned under the heading or sub-heading.