Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.
New American Standard Bible
And my
King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Holman Bible
protect my teachings
as the pupil of your eye.
International Standard Version
Keep my commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight.
A Conservative Version
Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.
American Standard Version
Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
Amplified
Keep my commandments and live,
And keep my teaching and law as the apple of your eye.
Bible in Basic English
Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
Darby Translation
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
Julia Smith Translation
Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil of thine eyes.
King James 2000
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.
Modern King James verseion
Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live.
NET Bible
Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
New Heart English Bible
Keep my commandments and live. Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
The Emphasized Bible
Keep my commandments and live, and mine instruction, as the pupil of thine eye;
Webster
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.
World English Bible
Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Interlinear
Shamar
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 7:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Against The Strange Woman
1 My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. 2 Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye. 3 Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10
He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.
Psalm 17:8
Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.
Proverbs 4:4
And he directeth me, and he saith to me: 'Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: After honour He hath sent me unto the nations who are spoiling you, For he who is coming against you, Is coming against the daughter of His eye.
Leviticus 18:5
and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I am Jehovah.
Proverbs 4:13
Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
John 12:49-50
because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,
John 14:21
he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'
John 15:14
ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;
1 John 2:3-4
and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;
1 John 5:1-3
Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:
Revelation 22:14
'Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;