Proverbs 7:1

World English Bible (2000)

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
  • Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
  • John 15:20 : 20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
  • Rev 1:3 : 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.
  • Rev 22:9 : 9 He said to me, "See you don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."
  • Prov 2:1-7 : 1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; 2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; 3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: 5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
  • Prov 10:14 : 14 Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • Deut 11:28 : 28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
  • Job 22:22 : 22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

    2So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 7:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    2Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

    3Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

    2for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

  • Prov 6:20-22
    3 verses
    81%

    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

    21Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

    22When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

    20My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

    21Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

    7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 1:8
    79%

    8My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

    2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 7:24
    78%

    24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    4He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

    5Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

    6Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 8:32
    77%

    32"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • Prov 3:21
    76%

    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Prov 4:10
    76%

    10Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 23:26
    76%

    26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

  • Gen 27:8
    75%

    8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

    2for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

  • Deut 7:11
    74%

    11You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

  • Prov 22:18
    74%

    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

  • Job 22:22
    73%

    22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

  • Ps 12:7
    73%

    7You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

  • Prov 23:19
    73%

    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Prov 1:15
    73%

    15My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Deut 6:17
    73%

    17You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Deut 6:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;

    7and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

  • Deut 11:18
    72%

    18Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

  • Prov 7:5
    72%

    5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

  • Ps 119:11
    72%

    11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

  • Ps 119:4
    72%

    4You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.

  • Deut 6:2
    72%

    2that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

    27If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 27:11
    71%

    11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

  • Deut 4:9
    71%

    9Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;

  • Prov 4:13
    71%

    13Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

  • John 15:10
    71%

    10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.

  • Prov 1:10
    71%

    10My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

  • Deut 8:6
    71%

    6You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

  • Prov 23:15
    71%

    15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine: