Proverbs 4:21

World English Bible (2000)

Let them not 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 store up my commandments within you;
  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Don't let kindness 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. Lay up my commandments within you. 2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    87%

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

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

  • Prov 4:22-26
    5 verses
    82%

    22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

    23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

    24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

    26 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

  • Prov 6:20-22
    3 verses
    81%

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

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

    22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

  • Prov 4:20
    80%

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

  • Prov 3:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

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

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

    3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 23:26
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

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

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

    6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

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

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

    3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 22:18
    77%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    76%

    9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;

  • Prov 23:19
    75%

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

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:13
    75%

    13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

  • Deut 11:18
    74%

    18 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Prov 7:25
    74%

    25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

  • Prov 6:25
    74%

    25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Prov 23:12
    73%

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

  • Matt 6:21
    73%

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

  • Prov 5:17
    73%

    17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:37
    72%

    37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

  • Ps 119:11
    72%

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

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

    6 Train 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%

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

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

  • Prov 2:11
    72%

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

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Prov 1:15
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:6
    71%

    6 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;

  • Prov 8:32
    71%

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

  • Prov 7:5
    71%

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

  • Prov 6:4
    71%

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