Proverbs 7:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:8 : 8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
  • Luke 11:28 : 28 And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping `it'!'
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;
  • John 15:20 : 20 `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;
  • Rev 1:3 : 3 Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the time is nigh!
  • Rev 22:9 : 9 and he saith to me, `See -- not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.'
  • Prov 2:1-7 : 1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, 2 To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, 3 For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, 4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, 5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding. 7 Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,
  • Prov 10:14 : 14 The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool `is' near ruin.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 `And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain `it', and bear fruit in continuance.
  • Deut 11:28 : 28 and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.
  • Job 22:22 : 22 Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    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 7:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

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

    3Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

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

    2For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

  • Prov 6:20-22
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    22In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked -- it talketh `with' thee.

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

    20My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

    21Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

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

  • Prov 1:8
    79%

    8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

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

    2To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.

  • Prov 7:24
    78%

    24And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

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

    5Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.

    6Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

  • Prov 8:32
    77%

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

  • Prov 3:21
    76%

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

  • Prov 4:10
    76%

    10Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life `are' multiplied to thee.

  • Prov 23:26
    76%

    26Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

  • Gen 27:8
    75%

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

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 7:11
    74%

    11and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.

  • Prov 22:18
    74%

    18For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.

  • Job 22:22
    73%

    22Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

  • Ps 12:7
    73%

    7Thou, O Jehovah, dost preserve them, Thou keepest us from this generation to the age.

  • Prov 23:19
    73%

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

  • Prov 1:15
    73%

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

  • Deut 6:17
    73%

    17ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

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

  • Deut 6:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,

    7and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

  • Deut 11:18
    72%

    18`And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes;

  • Prov 7:5
    72%

    5To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

  • Ps 119:11
    72%

    11In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

  • Ps 119:4
    72%

    4Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently,

  • Deut 6:2
    72%

    2so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

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

  • Prov 27:11
    71%

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

  • Deut 4:9
    71%

    9`Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

  • Prov 4:13
    71%

    13Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she `is' thy life.

  • John 15:10
    71%

    10if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

  • Prov 1:10
    71%

    10My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

  • Deut 8:6
    71%

    6and thou hast kept the commands of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.

  • Prov 23:15
    71%

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