Proverbs 31:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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?

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
  • 1 Sam 1:11 : 11 And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.
  • 1 Sam 1:28 : 28 So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 31:1
    85%

    1The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.

  • Prov 31:3
    75%

    3Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

  • Prov 23:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Prov 6:20
    73%

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

  • Prov 4:3
    73%

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

  • Prov 1:8
    73%

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

  • Isa 45:10
    72%

    10Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

  • Job 31:18
    72%

    18(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

  • Gen 27:8
    72%

    8Now, my son, do what I say.

  • 1 Kgs 3:21-23
    3 verses
    71%

    21And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.

    22And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.

    23Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.

  • Prov 5:20
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    70%

    28And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

  • Prov 10:1
    70%

    1A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

  • Prov 27:11
    70%

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

  • Prov 5:7
    70%

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

  • Prov 3:1
    70%

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

  • 1 Kgs 3:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.

    27Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.

  • Prov 23:15
    70%

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

  • Prov 2:1
    70%

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

  • Prov 17:25
    69%

    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

  • Ps 127:3
    69%

    3See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

  • Hos 2:2
    69%

    2Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

  • 1 Kgs 1:17
    69%

    17And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.

  • Prov 5:1
    69%

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

  • Ezek 23:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

    2Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

  • Prov 7:24
    69%

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

  • Num 30:3
    69%

    3When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

  • Prov 7:1
    69%

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

  • Deut 28:56
    69%

    56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

  • Prov 23:22
    69%

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

  • Deut 21:18
    69%

    18If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

  • Job 31:20
    69%

    20If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

  • Judg 17:2
    69%

    2And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.

  • Hos 13:13
    69%

    13The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

  • Prov 4:20
    69%

    20My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

  • Prov 19:27
    69%

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

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    69%

    17And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

  • 1 Kgs 2:22
    68%

    22Then King Solomon made answer and said to his mother, Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.

  • Gen 27:13
    68%

    13And his mother said, Let the curse be on me, my son: only do as I say, and go and get them for me.

  • Lam 2:20
    68%

    20Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

  • Job 31:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

    15Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

  • 1 Sam 1:27
    68%

    27My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request:

  • Gen 31:28
    68%

    28You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.