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:
Read in contextRevelation 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.
Read in contextLuke 11:28
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Read in contextProverbs 2:1–7
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Read in contextJohn 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.
Read in contextRevelation 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.
Read in contextJob 22:22
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Read in contextJohn 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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