Proverbs 4:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.”
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“Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she <FI>is<Fi> thy life.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 4:13 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 32:26Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- Deuteronomy 32:47For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
- Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
- Proverbs 3:22They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.
- Proverbs 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
- Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
- Proverbs 10:17Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.
- Proverbs 23:23Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
- Ecclesiastes 7:12For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
- Song of Solomon 3:4I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
- Luke 24:27And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.
- John 4:39Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
- John 6:68Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- Acts 2:42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
- Acts 11:23When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:21but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
- Hebrews 2:1We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
- Revelation 2:13I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
- Revelation 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
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