Proverbs 3:21

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My son, do not let them depart from your sight; guard sound wisdom and discretion.

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  • Josh 1:8 : 8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
  • Deut 6:6-9 : 6 These words that I am commanding you today are to be upon your heart. 7 Teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
  • Deut 32:46-47 : 46 he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. 47 They are not just empty words for you—they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
  • Prov 4:21 : 21 Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart.
  • Heb 2:1-3 : 1 Therefore, we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the message spoken through angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first declared by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him.
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only be careful and guard your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
  • 1 John 2:24 : 24 As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
  • 1 John 2:27 : 27 As for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things—and it is true and not a lie—just as it has taught you, remain in Him.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples.
  • John 15:6-7 : 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
  • Prov 2:7 : 7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
  • Prov 3:1-3 : 1 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments. 2 For they will add length of days, years of life, and peace to you. 3 Let lovingkindness and truth never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:20-23
    4 verses
    87%

    20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

    21Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart.

    22For they are life to those who find them and healing to all their flesh.

    23Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

  • Prov 3:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

    1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments.

    2For they will add length of days, years of life, and peace to you.

    3Let lovingkindness and truth never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

    4Then you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

    11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you,

  • Prov 3:22
    79%

    22They will be life to your soul and grace to your neck.

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my understanding.

    2So you may preserve discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

  • Prov 4:4-7
    4 verses
    78%

    4he taught me and said to me, 'Let your heart hold onto my words; keep my commands, and you will live.'

    5Acquire wisdom; acquire understanding. Do not forget or turn away from the words of my mouth.

    6Do not abandon her, and she will guard you; love her, and she will protect you.

    7Wisdom is supreme—acquire wisdom. Though it costs you all you have, gain understanding.

  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments with you.

    2Keep my commandments and live, and guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

    3Tie them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 23:19
    76%

    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right path.

  • Prov 5:7
    76%

    7Now, my children, listen to me, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 4:25
    75%

    25Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.

  • Prov 23:26
    75%

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

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching,

    9For they will be a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

    21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1My son, if you accept my words and treasure my commands with you,

    2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding,

  • Prov 1:15
    74%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your foot away from their paths,

  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise; apply your heart to my knowledge.

    18For it is pleasant when you keep them within you; they will be ready on your lips all together.

  • Prov 4:13
    73%

    13Hold tightly to instruction; do not let it go. Guard it well, for it is your life.

  • Prov 19:27
    73%

    27Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

    10Listen, my son, and accept my words, and the years of your life will be many.

  • Eccl 7:11
    72%

    11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and it is an advantage for those who see the light of day.

  • Prov 3:7
    72%

    7Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

  • Prov 7:25
    72%

    25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

  • Deut 4:9
    72%

    9Only be careful and guard your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

  • Prov 23:12
    72%

    12Apply your heart to discipline, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

    11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I may answer anyone who reproaches me.

  • Prov 3:20
    71%

    20By His knowledge the depths were divided, and the clouds drop down dew.

  • Prov 22:6
    71%

    6Train a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 8:32
    71%

    32Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • Prov 24:14
    71%

    14In the same way, know that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

  • Prov 27:23
    71%

    23Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds.

  • Prov 7:5
    71%

    5To keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 1:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity,

    4To give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—