Proverbs 3:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 4:5 : 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: do not forget it; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  • John 14:21-24 : 21 He who has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is who loves me: and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him. 22 Judas, not Iscariot, said to him, Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world? 23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. 24 He who does not love me does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law within them, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons;
  • Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
  • Ps 119:47-48 : 47 And I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love. 48 My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments, which I love; and I will meditate on Your statutes.
  • Ps 119:93 : 93 I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
  • 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.
  • Deut 8:1 : 1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.
  • Deut 30:16-20 : 16 In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it. 17 But if your heart turns away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I announce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live: 20 That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cling to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
  • Ps 119:153 : 153 RESH. Consider my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget Your law.
  • Ps 119:176 : 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments.
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
  • Prov 31:5 : 5 Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  • Isa 51:17 : 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

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

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

    3 Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    84%

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

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

  • Prov 1:8-10
    3 verses
    83%

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

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

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

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

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

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

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Prov 3:21
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:1-6
    6 verses
    79%

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

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

    3 For I was my father's son, tender and dearly loved in the sight of my mother.

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

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

    6 Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 23:26
    79%

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

  • Prov 3:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

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

    3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart:

  • Prov 5:1
    78%

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

  • Deut 8:11
    77%

    11 Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

  • Prov 23:19
    76%

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

  • Prov 8:32
    76%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    75%

    9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons;

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:10
    74%

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

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

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

  • Prov 3:11
    74%

    11 My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; nor be weary of his correction:

  • Ps 119:34
    74%

    34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    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 1:15
    73%

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

  • Prov 23:15
    73%

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

  • Deut 6:2
    72%

    2 That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your grandson, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

  • Ps 119:4
    72%

    4 You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently.

  • Eph 6:3
    72%

    3 That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

  • Deut 6:17
    72%

    17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

  • Ps 78:7
    72%

    7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

  • 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 23:22
    72%

    22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 23:12
    72%

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

  • Deut 6:6
    72%

    6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:

  • Ps 119:8
    72%

    8 I will keep Your statutes; oh, do not utterly forsake me.

  • Prov 7:24
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:16
    72%

    16 I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

  • Deut 10:13
    72%

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