Proverbs 3:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Josh 1:8 : 8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth; but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
  • 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 32:46-47 : 46 And he said to them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land which you go over Jordan to possess it.
  • Prov 4:21 : 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.
  • Heb 2:1-3 : 1 Therefore we ought to give more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; 3 How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those that heard him;
  • 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;
  • 1 John 2:24 : 24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
  • 1 John 2:27 : 27 But the anointing which you have received from him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in him.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;
  • John 15:6-7 : 6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you.
  • Prov 2:7 : 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly.
  • Prov 3:1-3 : 1 My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: 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:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:20-23
    4 verses
    87%

    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.

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

  • Prov 3:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

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

    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:

    4 So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  • Prov 2:10-11
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    79%

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

    11 Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

  • Prov 3:22
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    22 So they will be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.

  • Prov 5:1-2
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    78%

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

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

  • Prov 4:4-7
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    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.

    7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting, get understanding.

  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    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 23:19
    76%

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

  • Prov 5:7
    76%

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

  • Prov 4:25
    75%

    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

  • Prov 23:26
    75%

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

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
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    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.

  • Prov 6:20-21
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    75%

    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 2:1-2
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    75%

    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 1:15
    74%

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

  • Prov 22:17-18
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    17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge.

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

  • Prov 4:13
    73%

    13 Take firm hold of instruction; do not let her go: keep her; for she is your life.

  • Prov 19:27
    73%

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

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

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

  • Eccl 7:11
    72%

    11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.

  • Prov 3:7
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    7 Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

  • Prov 7:25
    72%

    25 Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

  • Deut 4:9
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    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 23:12
    72%

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

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

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

  • Prov 3:20
    71%

    20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

  • Prov 22:6
    71%

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

  • Prov 8:32
    71%

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

  • Prov 24:14
    71%

    14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.

  • Prov 27:23
    71%

    23 Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

  • Prov 7:5
    71%

    5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 1:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

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

    4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.