Proverbs 23:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:2 : 2 O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.
  • Matt 10:37-38 : 37 `He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me, 38 and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.
  • Ps 119:9-9 : 9 `Beth.' With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word. 10 With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands. 11 In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.
  • Deut 6:5 : 5 and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Who `is' wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it `are' the outgoings of life.
  • Prov 4:25-27 : 25 Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways `are' established. 27 Incline not `to' the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who `is' wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
  • 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;

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    19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,

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    15My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

    16And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.

  • Prov 4:20-21
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    20My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

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    1My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

  • Prov 2:1-2
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    1My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

    2To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,

  • Prov 6:20-21
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    20Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

    21Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

  • Prov 5:1
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    1My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,

  • Prov 1:8
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    8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

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    32And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.

  • Prov 7:24-25
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    24And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

    25Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

  • Prov 27:11
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    11Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

  • Prov 7:1-2
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    1My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

    2Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

  • Prov 4:10-11
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    10Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life `are' multiplied to thee.

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  • Prov 5:7
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    7And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

  • Prov 3:21
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    21My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness,

  • Gen 27:8
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    8`And now, my son, hearken to my voice, to that which I am commanding thee:

  • Prov 4:1-4
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    1Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

    2For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.

    3For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.

    4And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.

  • Prov 29:17
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    17Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

  • Prov 23:22
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    22Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

  • Prov 23:12
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    12Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

  • Prov 23:24-25
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    24The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

    25Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

  • Prov 4:25-26
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    25Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

    26Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways `are' established.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

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    15My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

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    6Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

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    25Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

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    19and to Solomon my son give a perfect heart, to keep Thy commands, Thy testimonies, and Thy statutes, and to do the whole, even to build the palace `for' which I have prepared.'

  • Prov 4:23
    72%

    23Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it `are' the outgoings of life.

  • Ps 119:34
    72%

    34Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.

  • Ps 119:37
    72%

    37Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

    27Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

  • Prov 23:33
    71%

    33Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

  • Prov 19:18
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    18Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

  • Prov 22:17
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    17Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,

  • Prov 1:10
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    10My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

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    10With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.