Proverbs 23:26

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:2 : 2 Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek him with the whole heart.
  • Matt 10:37-38 : 37 ‹He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.› 38 ‹And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.›
  • 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.
  • Deut 6:5 : 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Whoso [is] wise, and will observe these [things], even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 ¶ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
  • Prov 4:25-27 : 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 ‹If any› [man] ‹come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.›
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
  • 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 ¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Similar Verses (AI)

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

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

    16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

  • Prov 4:20-21
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    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.

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

  • Prov 2:1-2
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    1 ¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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

  • Prov 6:20-21
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    20 ¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 7:24-25
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    24 ¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

    25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

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

  • Prov 7:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

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

    11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

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

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

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

  • Prov 4:1-4
    4 verses
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    1 ¶ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

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

    3 For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother.

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

  • 17 ¶ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

  • 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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

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    24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him.

    25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
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    25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

    26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

  • 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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

  • 2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

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

  • 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

  • 19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all [these things], and to build the palace, [for] the which I have made provision.

  • 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.

  • 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart.

  • 37 ¶ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.

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

  • 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  • 18 ¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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

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

  • 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

  • 10 ¶ With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.