Proverbs 4:21

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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)

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

  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    87%

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

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

  • Prov 4:22-26
    5 verses
    82%

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

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

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

    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.

  • Prov 6:20-22
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    22 When 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
    80%

    20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

  • Prov 3:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    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:

  • Prov 23:26
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

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

    5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

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

  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

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

  • Prov 22:18
    77%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    76%

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

  • Prov 23:19
    75%

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

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:13
    75%

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

  • Deut 11:18
    74%

    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
    2 verses
    74%

    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 7:25
    74%

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

  • Prov 6:25
    74%

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

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

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

    9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

  • Prov 23:12
    73%

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

  • Matt 6:21
    73%

    21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

  • Prov 5:17
    73%

    17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:37
    72%

    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
    72%

    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
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Prov 2:11
    72%

    11 Discretion shall eserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

    2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

  • Prov 1:15
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:6
    71%

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

  • Prov 8:32
    71%

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

  • Prov 7:5
    71%

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

  • Prov 6:4
    71%

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