Proverbs 6:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 2:11 : 11 Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;
  • Prov 3:23-24 : 23 Then you will walk in your way safely, and your foot will not stumble. 24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid: yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
  • Dan 11:18-21 : 18 After this, he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall take many: but a ruler for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach, he shall cause it to turn upon him. 19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fortress of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. 20 Then in his place shall stand a collector of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within a few days, he shall be destroyed, neither in anger nor in battle. 21 And in his place shall stand a despicable person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
  • Ps 17:4 : 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.
  • Ps 43:3 : 3 O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacles.
  • Ps 119:9 : 9 BETH. How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
  • Ps 119:54 : 54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
  • Ps 119:97 : 97 MEM. Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.
  • Ps 119:148 : 148 My eyes are awake through the night watches, that I may meditate on Your word.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:20-21
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    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.

  • Prov 6:23-24
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    23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  • Deut 6:6-9
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    6And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:

    7And 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.

    8And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

    9And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

  • Prov 4:11-13
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    11I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.

    12When you walk, your steps will not be hindered; and when you run, you will not stumble.

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

  • Prov 3:21-24
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    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.

    23Then you will walk in your way safely, and your foot will not stumble.

    24When you lie down, you will not be afraid: yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

  • Deut 11:18-20
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    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.

    19And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

    20And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house, and upon your gates:

  • Isa 30:21
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    21And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.

  • Prov 2:9-11
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    9Then you will understand righteousness and judgment and equity; yes, every good path.

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

    11Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

  • Prov 22:18-19
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    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

    19That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Prov 7:1-3
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    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 4:21-22
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    21Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

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

  • Ps 32:8
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    8I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.

  • Prov 23:19
    72%

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

  • Prov 2:20
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    20That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 3:1-3
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    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 3:6
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    6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.

  • Josh 1:8
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    8This 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.

  • Prov 2:1
    71%

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

  • Prov 1:9
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    9For they shall be a graceful ornament on your head and chains about your neck.

  • Prov 4:25-26
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    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.

  • Ps 63:6
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    6When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.

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

  • Deut 8:6
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    6Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

  • Deut 6:17
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    17You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

  • 1 Kgs 2:3
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    3And keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself:

  • Prov 6:2
    70%

    2You are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth.