Proverbs 3:1

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“My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;”

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BSBPD

“My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 3:1 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 4:9Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
  2. Deuteronomy 4:23Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
  3. Deuteronomy 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  4. Deuteronomy 5:33You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
  5. Deuteronomy 6:6These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
  6. Deuteronomy 8:1You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
  7. Deuteronomy 30:16For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
  8. Psalms 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
  9. Psalms 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  10. Psalms 119:34Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
  11. Psalms 119:47I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
  12. Psalms 119:93I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
  13. Psalms 119:153Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
  14. Psalms 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
  15. Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
  16. Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
  17. Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
  18. Proverbs 4:21Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
  19. Proverbs 8:1Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
  20. Proverbs 9:1Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
  21. Proverbs 31:5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
  22. Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs— the cup that makes men stagger.
  23. Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  24. Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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