Proverbs 4:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:21 : 21 ¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
  • Prov 2:1 : 1 ¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
  • Prov 7:1-2 : 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.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    87%

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

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

  • Prov 4:22-26
    5 verses
    82%

    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.

    24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

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

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

  • Prov 6:20-22
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    81%

    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.

    22When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

  • Prov 4:20
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    20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

  • Prov 3:1-3
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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:

  • Prov 23:26
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    26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

  • Prov 4:4-6
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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.

  • Prov 7:1-3
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    78%

    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.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

  • Deut 4:9
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    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;

  • Prov 23:19
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    19¶ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

  • Prov 5:7
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    7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 4:13
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    13Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.

  • Deut 11:18
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    18¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • 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;

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

  • Prov 6:25
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    25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
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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 23:12
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    12¶ Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Matt 6:21
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    21‹For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.›

  • Prov 5:17
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    17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

  • Prov 4:10
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    10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

  • Ps 119:37
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    37¶ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.

  • Ps 119:11
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    11¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 4:1-2
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    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.

  • Prov 2:11
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    11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

  • 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 1:15
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    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Deut 6:6
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    6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

  • Prov 8:32
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    32¶ Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

  • Prov 6:4
    71%

    4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.