Proverbs 3:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:10 : 10 Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.
  • Prov 9:11 : 11 For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.
  • Ps 91:16 : 16 With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.
  • Ps 119:165 : 165 Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.
  • 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
  • Job 5:26 : 26 You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
  • Ps 21:4 : 4 He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.
  • Ps 34:11-14 : 11 Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord. 12 What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit. 14 Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.
  • Ps 128:6 : 6 May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.
  • Prov 3:16-17 : 16 Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour. 17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.
  • Prov 10:27 : 27 The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.
  • Isa 32:17 : 17 And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.
  • Isa 57:19-21 : 19 I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well. 20 But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste. 21 There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 15:13 : 13 Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), 3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:9-10
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    9She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.

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

  • Prov 3:21-23
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    21My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

    22So they will be life for your soul, and grace for your neck.

    23Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

  • Eph 6:3
    79%

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

  • Prov 9:11
    79%

    11For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

  • Prov 3:3-4
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    3Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;

    4So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

  • Prov 3:1
    78%

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

  • Prov 3:16-18
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    77%

    16Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • 1 Kgs 3:14
    77%

    14And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

  • Ps 61:6
    76%

    6You will give the king long life; and make his years go on through the generations.

  • Deut 11:21
    75%

    21So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

  • Prov 1:8-9
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    75%

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

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

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

  • Prov 4:21-22
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    21Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

    22For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.

  • Prov 6:20-22
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    74%

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

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

    22In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

  • Deut 4:40
    73%

    40Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

  • Deut 6:2
    73%

    2So 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.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Ps 34:12
    73%

    12What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

  • Prov 3:8
    73%

    8This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

  • Prov 7:1-3
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    72%

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

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

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

  • Deut 30:20
    72%

    20In 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 21:4
    72%

    4He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

  • Deut 5:16
    71%

    16Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Prov 4:4-6
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    71%

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

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

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

  • Prov 2:10-11
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    71%

    10For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

    11Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

  • Exod 20:12
    71%

    12Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Job 22:21
    71%

    21Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
    71%

    10For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

  • Prov 8:32
    71%

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

  • Prov 3:13
    71%

    13Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

  • Ps 128:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

    6May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

  • Prov 10:27
    70%

    27The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.