Proverbs 2:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 7:1 : 1 ¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 ¶ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
  • Prov 4:1 : 1 ¶ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
  • John 12:47-48 : 47 ‹And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.› 48 ‹He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.›
  • Matt 13:44 : 44 ¶ ‹Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.›
  • Luke 2:19 : 19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered [them] in her heart.
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
  • Prov 4:10 : 10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
  • Prov 4:20-22 : 20 ¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
  • Prov 6:21 : 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
  • Deut 6:6-9 : 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
  • Job 23:12 : 12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].
  • Ps 119:9-9 : 9 ¶ BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed [thereto] according to thy word. 10 ¶ With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 ¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
  • Prov 1:3 : 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
  • Luke 9:44 : 44 ‹Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.›
  • 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 This [is] a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    1¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

    2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

  • Prov 2:2-4
    3 verses
    87%

    2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;

    3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;

    4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1¶ My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:

    2That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    83%

    20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

    21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1¶ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

    2For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

  • Prov 4:10
    80%

    10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

  • Prov 1:8-10
    3 verses
    80%

    8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

    9For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

    10¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1¶ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

    2For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

  • Job 22:22
    78%

    22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

  • Prov 1:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

    3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

  • Prov 6:20-21
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    77%

    20¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

    21Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32¶ Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.

    33Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

  • Prov 23:26
    77%

    26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17¶ Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

    18For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

  • Prov 4:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

    5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 23:12
    75%

    12¶ Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 7:24
    75%

    24¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 23:19
    75%

    19¶ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

    7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 23:15
    75%

    15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

  • Prov 3:21
    75%

    21¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Job 34:16
    74%

    16¶ If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

    8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10¶ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

    11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

  • Prov 1:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

    6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

  • Ps 119:11
    73%

    11¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

  • Prov 1:15
    73%

    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Prov 8:10
    73%

    10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

  • Ps 78:1
    73%

    1¶ Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

  • Ezek 3:10
    72%

    10Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

    11¶ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

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

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

    27¶ Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.