Proverbs 7:2

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 17:8 : 8 Protect me as you would the pupil of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 You must keep my decrees and my laws, because the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desolate land, in a barren wasteland with howling winds. He surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the apple of His eye.
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 he taught me and said to me, 'Let your heart hold onto my words; keep my commands, and you will live.'
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear and come to me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 He said to him, 'Run and tell that young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited as a city without walls because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.'
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments. 4 Anyone who claims, 'I have come to know Him,' but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in them.
  • 1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who keep His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to speak. 50 I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say.
  • John 14:21 : 21 The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Hold tightly to instruction; do not let it go. Guard it well, for it is your life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:1
    85%

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

  • Prov 7:3
    80%

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

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Prov 4:20-22
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Ps 17:8
    75%

    8Protect me as you would the pupil of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.

  • Prov 2:1
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:4
    74%

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

  • Prov 6:20-23
    4 verses
    74%

    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.

    22When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you wake, they will speak to you.

    23For the commandment is a lamp, the teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.

  • Prov 3:21
    74%

    21My son, do not let them depart from your sight; guard sound wisdom and discretion.

  • Deut 11:18
    72%

    18Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds. Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

  • Deut 7:11
    72%

    11Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances that I am giving you today to follow.

  • Prov 23:26
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:2
    72%

    2For I give you good teaching; do not abandon my instruction.

  • Prov 1:8
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:25
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:17
    71%

    17Diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, as well as His testimonies and statutes that He has commanded you.

  • Deut 6:8
    70%

    8Bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • Ps 119:37
    70%

    37Turn my eyes from worthless things; give me life according to Your way.

  • Prov 8:32
    70%

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

  • John 15:10
    70%

    10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

  • Prov 5:7
    70%

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

  • Ps 119:4
    70%

    4You have commanded Your precepts to be kept diligently.

  • Deut 10:13
    70%

    13and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes that I am commanding you today for your own good?

  • Eccl 8:2
    69%

    2I advise you to obey the king's command and stay true to your oath made before God.

  • 1 Kgs 2:3
    69%

    3Obey the charge of the LORD your God by walking in His ways, keeping His statutes, commandments, judgments, and testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses. In this way, you will prosper in all you do and wherever you turn.

  • Deut 4:9
    69%

    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.

  • Deut 11:1
    69%

    1You shall love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments.

  • Deut 13:18
    69%

    18Do not let any of the things set apart for destruction cling to your hand, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you, and increase you, as He swore to your ancestors.

  • Prov 22:18
    69%

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

  • Ps 119:18
    69%

    18Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law.

  • Deut 6:2
    69%

    2So that you may fear the LORD your God by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I am commanding you today—you, your children, and your grandchildren—all the days of your life, and so your days may be prolonged.

  • Prov 6:25
    69%

    25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her captivate you with her eyes.

  • Prov 7:24
    69%

    24Now then, my sons, listen to me and pay attention to the words of my mouth.

  • Deut 11:22
    69%

    22For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

  • Job 22:22
    69%

    22Accept instruction from His mouth and place His words in your heart.

  • Deut 8:6
    69%

    6Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to revere Him.

  • Prov 4:13
    69%

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

  • Lev 22:31
    69%

    31Therefore, keep My commandments and follow them. I am the LORD.

  • Prov 4:6
    69%

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

  • Deut 4:2
    69%

    2Do not add to the command that I am giving you, and do not take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you.

  • Prov 19:16
    69%

    16The one who keeps the commandment preserves their soul, but whoever despises their ways will die.

  • Deut 32:46
    68%

    46he 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.

  • Prov 5:2
    68%

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

  • Deut 8:1
    68%

    1Be meticulous in observing all the commandments that I am commanding you today, so that you may live, multiply, enter, and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to your fathers.