Proverbs 7:1

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 7:1 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 11:28but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
  2. Job 22:22Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
  3. Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
  4. Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
  5. Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
  6. Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
  7. Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
  8. Proverbs 10:14The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.
  9. Luke 8:15But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
  10. Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
  11. John 14:23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
  12. John 15:20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
  13. Revelation 1:3Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.
  14. Revelation 22:9But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”

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