Proverbs 7:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 17:8 : 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me under the shadow of your wings.
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts: After the glory has He sent me to the nations which plundered you: for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • 1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child born of them. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me gave me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told me, so I speak.
  • John 14:21 : 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.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Take firm hold of instruction; do not let her go: keep her; for she is your life.

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    85%

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

  • Prov 7:3
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    3Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    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 4:20-22
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    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.

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

  • Ps 17:8
    75%

    8Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me under the shadow of your wings.

  • Prov 2:1
    75%

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

  • 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.

  • Prov 6:20-23
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    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.

    23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

  • Prov 3:21
    74%

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

  • Deut 11:18
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 7:11
    72%

    11Therefore you shall keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them.

  • Prov 23:26
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:2
    72%

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

  • Prov 1:8
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    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • Prov 4:25
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:17
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:8
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    8And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • Ps 119:37
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    37Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way.

  • Prov 8:32
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    32Now therefore listen to me, O children, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • John 15:10
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    10If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love.

  • Prov 5:7
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    7Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

  • Ps 119:4
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    4You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently.

  • Deut 10:13
    70%

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

  • Eccl 8:2
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    2I counsel you to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard to the oath of God.

  • 1 Kgs 2:3
    69%

    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:

  • Deut 4:9
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    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;

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    1Therefore, you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

  • Deut 13:18
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    18When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

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

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    69%

    18Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

  • Deut 6:2
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    2That 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.

  • Prov 6:25
    69%

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

  • Prov 7:24
    69%

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

  • Deut 11:22
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    22For if you diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him;

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

  • 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.

  • Prov 4:13
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    13Take firm hold of instruction; do not let her go: keep her; for she is your life.

  • Lev 22:31
    69%

    31Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.

  • Prov 4:6
    69%

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

  • Deut 4:2
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    2You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take anything from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

  • Prov 19:16
    69%

    16He who keeps the commandment keeps his own soul, but he who despises his ways shall die.

  • Deut 32:46
    68%

    46And 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.

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

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    1All 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.