Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
2 Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
3 Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
- KJV
- My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
- WEB
- My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
- ASV
- My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
- DARBY
- My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
- BLB
- My son, keep my words and treasure my commands within you.
- ÅB
- Min sønn, bevar mine ord og gjem mine bud hos deg!
- OTB
- Min sønn, bevar mine ord og ta vare på mine bud hos deg.
- B1930
- Min sønn, bevar mine ord og gjem mine bud hos dig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Read in contextRevelation 1:3
Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.
Read in contextLuke 11:28
But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Read in contextProverbs 2:1–7
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
Read in contextJohn 14:23
Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
Read in contextRevelation 22:9
But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”
Read in contextJob 22:22
Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
Read in contextJohn 15:20
Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
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