Proverbs 6:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:11 : 11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
  • Prov 3:23-24 : 23 Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping. 24 When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.
  • Dan 11:18-21 : 18 After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him. 19 Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again. 20 Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight. 21 And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.
  • Ps 17:4 : 4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
  • Ps 43:3 : 3 O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
  • Ps 119:9 : 9 <BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.
  • Ps 119:54 : 54 Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
  • Ps 119:97 : 97 <MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
  • Ps 119:148 : 148 In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 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.

  • Prov 6:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

  • Deut 6:6-9
    4 verses
    79%

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

    7Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

    8Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

    9Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

  • Prov 4:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

    12When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.

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

  • Prov 3:21-24
    4 verses
    77%

    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.

    24When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.

  • Deut 11:18-20
    3 verses
    76%

    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;

    19Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

    20Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns:

  • Isa 30:21
    76%

    21And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

  • Prov 2:9-11
    3 verses
    74%

    9Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

    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;

  • Prov 22:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

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

    19So that your faith may be in the Lord, I have made them clear to you this day, even to you.

  • Prov 4:6
    74%

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

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

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

  • Prov 6:4
    73%

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

  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    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 4:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 32:8
    73%

    8I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

  • Prov 23:19
    72%

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

  • Prov 2:20
    72%

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

  • Prov 3:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    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 3:6
    71%

    6In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

  • Josh 1:8
    71%

    8Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

  • Prov 2:1
    71%

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

  • Prov 1:9
    71%

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

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 63:6
    71%

    6When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.

  • Prov 4:4
    71%

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

  • Deut 8:6
    71%

    6Then keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him and walking in his ways.

  • Deut 6:17
    70%

    17Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

  • 1 Kgs 2:3
    70%

    3And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,

  • Prov 6:2
    70%

    2You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.