Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 17:8 : 8 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
- Lev 18:5 : 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.
- Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Prov 4:4 : 4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
- Isa 55:3 : 3 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Zech 2:8 : 8 For thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'For honor he has 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 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. 4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
- 1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. 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. His commandments are not grievous.
- 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 in by the gates into the city.
- John 12:49-50 : 49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
- John 14:21 : 21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One 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. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
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