Proverbs 7:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 17:8 : 8 ¶ Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.
  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 ¶ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • 1 John 5:1-3 : 1 ¶ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 ‹For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.› 50 ‹And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.›
  • John 14:21 : 21 ‹He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.›
  • John 15:14 : 14 ‹Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.›
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 7:3
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    3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

  • Prov 3:1-2
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    78%

    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 4:20-22
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    78%

    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.

  • Ps 17:8
    75%

    8¶ Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

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

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  • Prov 6:20-23
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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.

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

    23For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:

  • Prov 3:21
    74%

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

  • 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.

  • Deut 7:11
    72%

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

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

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

  • Prov 1:8
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:25
    71%

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

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

  • Deut 6:8
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    8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

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

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

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

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    13To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

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    69%

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    3And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

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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;

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    1¶ Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

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    69%

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    69%

    18¶ Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

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    69%

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

  • Prov 7:24
    69%

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

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    69%

    22For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

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    69%

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

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    69%

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

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

  • Lev 22:31
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    31Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.

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

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