Proverbs 23:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:2 : 2 Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.
  • Matt 10:37-38 : 37 He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.
  • Ps 119:9-9 : 9 <BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word. 10 I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching. 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
  • Deut 6:5 : 5 And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
  • Prov 4:25-27 : 25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you. 26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered. 27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death; 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
  • 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

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  • Prov 23:19
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    19 Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.

  • Prov 23:15-16
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    15 My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

    16 And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

  • Prov 4:20-21
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    20 My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

    21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

  • Prov 3:1
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    1 My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

    2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

  • Prov 6:20-21
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    77%

    20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

    21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

  • Prov 5:1
    77%

    1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

  • Prov 1:8
    77%

    8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

  • Prov 8:32
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    32 Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

  • Prov 7:24-25
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    76%

    24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

    25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Prov 27:11
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    11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

  • Prov 7:1-2
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    76%

    1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

    2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

    11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

  • Prov 5:7
    76%

    7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

  • Prov 3:21
    75%

    21 My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

  • Gen 27:8
    75%

    8 Now, my son, do what I say.

  • Prov 4:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

    2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.

    3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

    4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

  • Prov 29:17
    74%

    17 Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

  • Prov 23:22
    74%

    22 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 23:12
    74%

    12 Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 23:24-25
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    74%

    24 The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

    25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

    26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Prov 1:15
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    15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Prov 31:2
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    2 What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

  • Prov 22:6
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    6 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

  • Prov 6:25
    73%

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • 1 Chr 29:19
    72%

    19 And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.

  • Prov 4:23
    72%

    23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

  • Ps 119:34
    72%

    34 Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.

  • Ps 119:37
    72%

    37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

    27 A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 23:33
    71%

    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • Prov 19:18
    71%

    18 Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

  • Prov 22:17
    71%

    17 Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

  • Prov 1:10
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    10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

  • Prov 4:6
    71%

    6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

  • Ps 119:10
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    10 I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.