Proverbs 7:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 17:8 : 8 Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws. 4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
  • 1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child. 2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws. 3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it. 50 And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.
  • John 14:21 : 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:1
    85%

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

  • Prov 7:3
    80%

    3Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    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 4:20-22
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

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

  • Ps 17:8
    75%

    8Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,

  • Prov 2:1
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:4
    74%

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

  • Prov 6:20-23
    4 verses
    74%

    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.

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

  • Prov 3:21
    74%

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

  • 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;

  • Deut 7:11
    72%

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

  • Prov 23:26
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:2
    72%

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

  • Prov 1:8
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:25
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:17
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:8
    70%

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

  • Ps 119:37
    70%

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

  • Prov 8:32
    70%

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

  • John 15:10
    70%

    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 5:7
    70%

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

  • Ps 119:4
    70%

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

  • Deut 10:13
    70%

    13Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?

  • Eccl 8:2
    69%

    2I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.

  • 1 Kgs 2:3
    69%

    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,

  • Deut 4:9
    69%

    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;

  • Deut 11:1
    69%

    1So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

  • Deut 13:18
    69%

    18So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Prov 22:18
    69%

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

  • Ps 119:18
    69%

    18Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.

  • Deut 6:2
    69%

    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 6:25
    69%

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

  • Prov 7:24
    69%

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

  • Deut 11:22
    69%

    22For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him:

  • Job 22:22
    69%

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

  • Deut 8:6
    69%

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

  • Prov 4:13
    69%

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

  • Lev 22:31
    69%

    31So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

  • Prov 4:6
    69%

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

  • Deut 4:2
    69%

    2Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

  • Prov 19:16
    69%

    16He who keeps the law keeps his soul; but death will be the fate of him who takes no note of the word.

  • Deut 32:46
    68%

    46Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

  • Prov 5:2
    68%

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

  • Deut 8:1
    68%

    1Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.