Proverbs 7:2

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“Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.”

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BSBPD

“Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 7:2 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
  2. Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
  3. Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
  4. Psalms 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
  5. Proverbs 4:4he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.
  6. Proverbs 4:13Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
  7. Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
  8. Jeremiah 38:20“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
  9. Zechariah 2:8For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
  10. John 12:49I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
  11. John 14:21Whoever 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 reveal Myself to him.”
  12. John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
  13. 1 John 2:3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
  14. 1 John 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
  15. Revelation 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

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

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