Proverbs 4:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:21 : 21 My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.
  • Prov 2:1 : 1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;
  • Prov 7:1-2 : 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;
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    87%

    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.

  • Prov 4:22-26
    5 verses
    82%

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

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

    24Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

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

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

  • Prov 6:20-22
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Prov 4:20
    80%

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

  • Prov 3:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

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

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

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

  • Prov 23:26
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    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 7:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Prov 22:18
    77%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    76%

    9Only 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 23:19
    75%

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

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:13
    75%

    13Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

  • Deut 11:18
    74%

    18So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    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;

  • Prov 7:25
    74%

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

  • Prov 6:25
    74%

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

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    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 23:12
    73%

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

  • Matt 6:21
    73%

    21For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

  • Prov 5:17
    73%

    17Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:37
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:11
    72%

    11I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Prov 2:11
    72%

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

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

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

    2So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

  • Prov 1:15
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:6
    71%

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

  • Prov 8:32
    71%

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

  • Prov 7:5
    71%

    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

  • Prov 6:4
    71%

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;