Proverbs 7:2

¹ My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

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.

⁴ Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
KJV: Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
WEB: Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
ASV: Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
DARBY: Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
BLB: Guard my commands and live, and my instruction like the pupil of your eyes.

Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
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Leviticus 18:5
Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
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Proverbs 4:4
he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.
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1 John 2:3–4
By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
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John 14:21
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
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1 John 5:1–3
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
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Proverbs 4:13
Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
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John 15:14
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
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