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%

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

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

  • Prov 4:22-26
    5 verses
    82%

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

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

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

    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 6:20-22
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    22 In 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%

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

  • Prov 3:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

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

    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 23:26
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    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 7:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    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 22:18
    77%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    76%

    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 23:19
    75%

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

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:13
    75%

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

  • Deut 11:18
    74%

    18 So 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%

    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 7:25
    74%

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

  • Prov 6:25
    74%

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

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Prov 23:12
    73%

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

  • Matt 6:21
    73%

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

  • Prov 5:17
    73%

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

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:37
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:11
    72%

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

  • 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 4:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Prov 2:11
    72%

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

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Prov 1:15
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:6
    71%

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

  • Prov 8:32
    71%

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

  • Prov 7:5
    71%

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

  • Prov 6:4
    71%

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