Proverbs 4:6

American Standard Version (1901)

Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; Love her, and she will keep thee.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  • Prov 2:10-12 : 10 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
  • Prov 4:21-22 : 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:4-5
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    4And he taught me, and said unto me: Let thy heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live;

    5Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;

  • Prov 4:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [Therefore] get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

    8Exalt her, and she will promote thee; She will bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.

    9She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; A crown of beauty will she deliver to thee.

    10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.

  • Prov 4:13
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    13Take fast hold of instruction; Let her not go: Keep her; For she is thy life.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

    17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

  • Prov 4:21-23
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    21Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

    22For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.

    23Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

  • Prov 7:3-5
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    3Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.

    4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding [thy] kinswoman:

    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

  • Prov 6:20-22
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    20My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

    21Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.

    22When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; When thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

  • Prov 2:11
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    11Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

  • Prov 5:18-20
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    18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

    19[ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

    20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

  • Prov 3:21
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    21My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Prov 3:1
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    1My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:

  • Prov 3:15-18
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    15She is more precious than rubies: And none of the things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her.

    16Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.

    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

  • Prov 5:6-9
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    6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.

    7Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.

    8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

    9Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;

  • Prov 1:8
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    8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Prov 4:2
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    2For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.

  • Prov 3:3
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    3Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

  • Prov 19:8
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    8He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: He that keepeth understanding shall find good.

  • Prov 2:4
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    4If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

  • Prov 9:6
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    6Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.

  • Prov 5:2
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    2That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.

  • Prov 7:1
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    1My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.

  • Prov 9:4
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    4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

  • Prov 19:14
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    14House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

  • Prov 2:20
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    20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 23:26
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    26My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.