Verse 2

Keep my commandments and live, and guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 17:8 : 8 Protect me as you would the pupil of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 You must keep my decrees and my laws, because the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desolate land, in a barren wasteland with howling winds. He surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the apple of His eye.
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 he taught me and said to me, 'Let your heart hold onto my words; keep my commands, and you will live.'
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear and come to me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 He said to him, 'Run and tell that young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited as a city without walls because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.'
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments. 4 Anyone who claims, 'I have come to know Him,' but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in them.
  • 1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who keep His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to speak. 50 I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say.
  • John 14:21 : 21 The one who 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 will reveal myself to him.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Hold tightly to instruction; do not let it go. Guard it well, for it is your life.