Proverbs 4:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  • Prov 2:10-12 : 10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
  • Prov 4:21-22 : 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.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

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  • Prov 4:4-5
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    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 4:7-10
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    7Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

    8Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

    9She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."

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

  • Prov 4:13
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    13Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

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

    26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

    17who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

  • Prov 4:21-23
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    21Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

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

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

  • Prov 7:3-5
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    3Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

    4Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

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

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

  • Prov 6:20-22
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    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.

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

  • Prov 2:11
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    11Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

  • Prov 5:18-20
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    18Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

    19A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

    20For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • Prov 3:21
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    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Prov 3:1
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    1My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

  • Prov 3:15-18
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    15She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

    16Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

  • Prov 5:6-9
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    6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

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

    8Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

    9lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

  • Prov 1:8
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    8My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Prov 4:2
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    2for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

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

  • Prov 19:8
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    8He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

  • Prov 2:4
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    4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

  • Prov 9:6
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    6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."

  • Prov 5:2
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    2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 7:1
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    1My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

  • Prov 9:4
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    4"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 19:14
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    14House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

  • 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 23:26
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    26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.