Proverbs 7:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 17:8 : 8 Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I `am' Jehovah.
  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: After honour He hath sent me unto the nations who are spoiling you, For he who is coming against you, Is coming against the daughter of His eye.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; 4 he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
  • 1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him: 2 in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep; 3 for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak, 50 and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.'
  • John 14:21 : 21 he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'
  • John 15:14 : 14 ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she `is' thy life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 1My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

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

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    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 4:20-22
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

    22For life they `are' to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.

  • 8Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.

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

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

  • Prov 6:20-23
    4 verses
    74%

    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.

    23For a lamp `is' the command, And the law a light, And a way of life `are' reproofs of instruction,

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

  • 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;

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

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

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

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

  • 25Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

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

  • 8and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,

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

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

  • 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;

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

  • 4Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently,

  • 13to keep the commands of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee?

  • 2I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God.

  • 3and kept the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commands, and His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that thou dost wisely all that thou dost, and whithersoever thou turnest,

  • 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.

  • 1`And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;

  • 18when thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep all his commands which I am commanding thee to-day, to do that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

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

  • 18Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 22`For, if ye diligently keep all this command which I am commanding you -- to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him,

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

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

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

  • 31and ye have kept my commands, and have done them; I `am' Jehovah;

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

  • 2Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.

  • 16Whoso is keeping the command is keeping his soul, Whoso is despising His ways dieth.

  • 46and saith unto them, `Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,

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

  • 1`All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers;