Proverbs 4:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:21 : 21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
  • Prov 2:1 : 1 My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;
  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart:
  • Prov 7:1-2 : 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.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God: yes, Your law is within my heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    87%

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

    22So they will be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.

  • Prov 4:22-26
    5 verses
    82%

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

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

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

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

    26Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

  • Prov 6:20-22
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

  • Prov 4:20
    80%

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

  • Prov 3:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

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

  • Prov 23:26
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

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

  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

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

  • Prov 22:18
    77%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    76%

    9Only 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 23:19
    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 4:13
    75%

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

  • Deut 11:18
    74%

    18Therefore, you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, so they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Prov 7:25
    74%

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

  • Prov 6:25
    74%

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Prov 23:12
    73%

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

  • Matt 6:21
    73%

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

  • Prov 5:17
    73%

    17Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:37
    72%

    37Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way.

  • Ps 119:11
    72%

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

  • 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 4:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Prov 2:11
    72%

    11Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    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 1:15
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:6
    71%

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

  • Prov 8:32
    71%

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

  • Prov 7:5
    71%

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

  • Prov 6:4
    71%

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.