Proverbs 7:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
  • Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
  • John 15:20 : 20 Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.
  • Rev 1:3 : 3 A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near.
  • Rev 22:9 : 9 And he said to me, See you do it not; I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: give worship to God.
  • Prov 2:1-7 : 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; 3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; 4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; 5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason: 7 He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
  • Prov 10:14 : 14 Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
  • Deut 11:28 : 28 And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours.
  • Job 22:22 : 22 Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your 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 2:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    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 7:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    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 3:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

  • 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 4:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

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

    21Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

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

  • Prov 1:8
    79%

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

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    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 7:24
    78%

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

  • 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 8:32
    77%

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

  • Prov 3:21
    76%

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

  • Prov 4:10
    76%

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

  • Prov 23:26
    76%

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

  • Gen 27:8
    75%

    8Now, my son, do what I say.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 7:11
    74%

    11So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

  • Prov 22:18
    74%

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

  • Job 22:22
    73%

    22Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

  • Ps 12:7
    73%

    7You will keep them, O Lord, you will keep them safe from this generation for ever.

  • Prov 23:19
    73%

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

  • Prov 1:15
    73%

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

  • Deut 6:17
    73%

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

  • 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.

  • Deut 6:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 11:18
    72%

    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 7:5
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:11
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:4
    72%

    4You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.

  • Deut 6:2
    72%

    2So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

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

  • Prov 27:11
    71%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    71%

    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 4:13
    71%

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

  • John 15:10
    71%

    10If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

  • Prov 1:10
    71%

    10My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

  • Deut 8:6
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:15
    71%

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