Proverbs 2:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;

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  • Prov 7:1 : 1 My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
  • Prov 4:1 : 1 Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.
  • John 12:47-48 : 47 And if anyone hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 He who rejects me and does not receive my words has that which judges him: the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
  • Matt 13:44 : 44 The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
  • Luke 2:19 : 19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
  • Prov 4:10 : 10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life will be many.
  • Prov 4:20-22 : 20 My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart. 22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
  • Prov 6:21 : 21 Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.
  • Deut 6:6-9 : 6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: 7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
  • Job 23:12 : 12 Nor have I departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
  • Ps 119:9-9 : 9 BETH. How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word. 10 With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments. 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
  • Prov 1:3 : 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
  • Luke 9:44 : 44 Let these sayings sink into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.
  • 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 7:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    1My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.

    2Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of your eye.

  • Prov 2:2-4
    3 verses
    87%

    2So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

    3Yes, if you cry out for knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

    4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

    2That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    83%

    20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

    21Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

    2For they will add to you length of days, long life, and peace.

  • Prov 4:10
    80%

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

  • Prov 1:8-10
    3 verses
    80%

    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

    9For they shall be a graceful ornament on your head and chains about your neck.

    10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.

    2For I give you good teaching, do not forsake my law.

  • Job 22:22
    78%

    22Receive, I pray you, the law from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

  • Prov 1:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

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

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:

    21Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32Now therefore listen to me, O children, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

    33Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.

  • Prov 23:26
    77%

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

  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge.

    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 4:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Prov 23:12
    75%

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

  • Prov 7:24
    75%

    24Therefore listen to me now, O children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 23:19
    75%

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

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

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

  • Prov 23:15
    75%

    15My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

  • Prov 3:21
    75%

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

  • Job 34:16
    74%

    16If now you have understanding, hear this; listen to the voice of my words.

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

    8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;

    11Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

  • Prov 1:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel;

    6To understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their riddles.

  • Ps 119:11
    73%

    11Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

  • Prov 1:15
    73%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Prov 8:10
    73%

    10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

  • Ps 78:1
    73%

    1Listen, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

  • Ezek 3:10
    72%

    10Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

    11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may have an answer for him who reproaches me.

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

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

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

    27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.