Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine 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

    My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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  • Revelation 1:3

    Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

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  • Luke 11:28

    But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

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  • Proverbs 2:1–7

    My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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  • John 14:23

    Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

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  • Revelation 22:9

    Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

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  • Job 22:22

    Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

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  • John 15:20

    Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

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