Proverbs 4:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
  • Prov 2:10-12 : 10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul; 11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you; 12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
  • Prov 4:21-22 : 21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart. 22 For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

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  • Prov 4:4-5
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    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.

  • Prov 4:7-10
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    7The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

    8Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

    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 4:13
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    13Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

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

    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

  • Prov 4:21-23
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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.

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

  • Prov 7:3-5
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    3Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

    4Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

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

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Prov 6:20-22
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    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 2:11
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    11Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

  • Prov 5:18-20
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    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

    19As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

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

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

  • Prov 3:1
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    1My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

  • Prov 3:15-18
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    15She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.

    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.

  • Prov 5:6-9
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    6She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

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

    8Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

    9For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

  • Prov 1:8
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    8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

  • Prov 4:2
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    2For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.

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

  • Prov 19:8
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    8He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

  • Prov 2:4
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    4If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

  • Prov 9:6
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    6Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

  • Prov 5:2
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    2So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

  • Prov 7:1
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    1My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

  • Prov 9:4
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    4Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Prov 19:14
    71%

    14House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

  • Prov 2:20
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    20So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Prov 23:26
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    26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.