Proverbs 3:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:5 : 5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
  • John 14:21-24 : 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world? 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him. 24 He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;
  • Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.
  • Ps 119:47-48 : 47 And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love. 48 And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
  • Ps 119:93 : 93 I will ever keep your orders in mind; for in them I have life.
  • Deut 6:6-9 : 6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; 7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. 8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; 9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.
  • Deut 8:1 : 1 Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.
  • Deut 30:16-20 : 16 In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage. 17 But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods: 18 I give witness against you this day that destruction will certainly be your fate, and your days will be cut short in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage on the other side of Jordan. 19 Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed: 20 In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
  • Ps 119:153 : 153 <RESH> O see my trouble, and be my saviour; for I keep your law in my mind,
  • Ps 119:176 : 176 I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.
  • Prov 31:5 : 5 For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
  • Isa 51:17 : 17 Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    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;

    3 Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    84%

    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 1:8-10
    3 verses
    83%

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

    9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

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

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    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 4:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

    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 3:21
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:1-6
    6 verses
    79%

    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:

    5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.

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

  • Prov 23:26
    79%

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

  • Prov 3:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2 For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

    3 Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;

  • Prov 5:1
    78%

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

  • Deut 8:11
    77%

    11 Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

  • Prov 23:19
    76%

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

  • Prov 8:32
    76%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    75%

    9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:10
    74%

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

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

    8 Now, my son, do what I say.

  • Prov 3:11
    74%

    11 My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:

  • Ps 119:34
    74%

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

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Prov 1:15
    73%

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

  • Prov 23:15
    73%

    15 My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

  • Deut 6:2
    72%

    2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

  • Ps 119:4
    72%

    4 You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.

  • Eph 6:3
    72%

    3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

  • Deut 6:17
    72%

    17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

  • Ps 78:7
    72%

    7 So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

    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 23:22
    72%

    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
    72%

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

  • Deut 6:6
    72%

    6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

  • Ps 119:8
    72%

    8 I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.

  • Prov 7:24
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:16
    72%

    16 I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

  • Deut 10:13
    72%

    13 Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?