Proverbs 7:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
  • Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, ‹Yea rather, blessed› [are] ‹they that hear the word of God, and keep it.›
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, ‹If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.›
  • John 15:20 : 20 ‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›
  • Rev 1:3 : 3 ¶ Blessed [is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time [is] at hand.
  • Rev 22:9 : 9 Then saith he unto me, See [thou do it] not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
  • Prov 2:1-7 : 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; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding. 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 ¶ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
  • Prov 10:14 : 14 ¶ Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 ‹But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep› [it], ‹and bring forth fruit with patience.›
  • Deut 11:28 : 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
  • Job 22:22 : 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    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 7:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    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 3:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    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 6:20-22
    3 verses
    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 4:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

    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 5:7
    79%

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

  • Prov 1:8
    79%

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

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    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 7:24
    78%

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

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    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 8:32
    77%

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

  • Prov 3:21
    76%

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

  • Prov 4:10
    76%

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

  • Prov 23:26
    76%

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

  • Gen 27:8
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 7:11
    74%

    11Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

  • Prov 22:18
    74%

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

  • Job 22:22
    73%

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

  • Ps 12:7
    73%

    7Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

  • Prov 23:19
    73%

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

  • Prov 1:15
    73%

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

  • Deut 6:17
    73%

    17¶ Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

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

  • Deut 6:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

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

    7And 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.

  • Deut 11:18
    72%

    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 7:5
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:11
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:4
    72%

    4¶ Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently.

  • Deut 6:2
    72%

    2That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

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

  • Prov 27:11
    71%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    71%

    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 4:13
    71%

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

  • John 15:10
    71%

    10‹If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.›

  • Prov 1:10
    71%

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

  • Deut 8:6
    71%

    6Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

  • Prov 23:15
    71%

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