Proverbs 3:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Josh 1:8 : 8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
  • 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.
  • Deut 32:46-47 : 46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it [is] not a vain thing for you; because it [is] your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
  • Prov 4:21 : 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
  • Heb 2:1-3 : 1 ¶ Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let [them] slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard [him];
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
  • 1 John 2:24 : 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
  • 1 John 2:27 : 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
  • John 8:31 : 31 ¶ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, ‹If ye continue in my word,› [then] ‹are ye my disciples indeed;›
  • John 15:6-7 : 6 ‹If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast› [them] ‹into the fire, and they are burned.› 7 ‹If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.›
  • Prov 2:7 : 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
  • Prov 3:1-3 : 1 ¶ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

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  • Prov 4:20-23
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    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.

    22For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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

  • Prov 3:1-4
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    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.

    3Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

    4So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  • Prov 2:10-11
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    10¶ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

    11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

  • 22So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

  • Prov 5:1-2
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    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 4:4-7
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    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.

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

    7Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

  • Prov 7:1-3
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    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.

    3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

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

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

  • 25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

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

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    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.

  • Prov 6:20-21
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    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 2:1-2
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    1¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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

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

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    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.

  • 13Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.

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

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

  • 11¶ Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.

  • 7¶ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

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

  • 9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

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

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

  • 20By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

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

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

  • 14So [shall] the knowledge of wisdom [be] unto thy soul: when thou hast found [it], then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

  • 23¶ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.

  • 5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

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

    4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.