Proverbs 2:1

World English Bible (2000)

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 7:1 : 1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
  • Prov 4:1 : 1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
  • John 12:47-48 : 47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
  • Matt 13:44 : 44 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
  • Luke 2:19 : 19 But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
  • Prov 4:10 : 10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
  • Prov 4:20-22 : 20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. 21 Let them not 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 their whole body.
  • Prov 6:21 : 21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
  • Deut 6:6-9 : 6 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on 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 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
  • Job 23:12 : 12 I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
  • Ps 119:9-9 : 9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. 10 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments. 11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
  • Prov 1:3 : 3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
  • Luke 9:44 : 44 "Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men."
  • 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 7:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    1My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

    2Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

  • Prov 2:2-4
    3 verses
    87%

    2So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

    3Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

    4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

    2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    83%

    20My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

    21Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

    2for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

  • Prov 4:10
    80%

    10Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 1:8-10
    3 verses
    80%

    8My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

    9for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

    10My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

    2for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

  • Job 22:22
    78%

    22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

  • Prov 1:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

    3to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

    21Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

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

    33Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.

  • Prov 23:26
    77%

    26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

  • Prov 4:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

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

    5Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 23:12
    75%

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

  • Prov 7:24
    75%

    24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 23:19
    75%

    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

    7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 23:15
    75%

    15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

  • Prov 3:21
    75%

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

  • Job 34:16
    74%

    16"If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

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

  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

    11Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

  • Prov 1:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

    6to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

  • Ps 119:11
    73%

    11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

  • Prov 1:15
    73%

    15My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Prov 8:10
    73%

    10Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

  • Ps 78:1
    73%

    1Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

  • Ezek 3:10
    72%

    10Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

    11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

  • 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 19:27
    71%

    27If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.