Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.

New American Standard Bible

Beth.
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to Your word.

King James Version

BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Holman Bible

ב BetHow can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping Your word.

International Standard Version

How can a young man keep his behavior pure? By guarding it in accordance with your word.

A Conservative Version

With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to thy word.

American Standard Version

BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Amplified

Beth.
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping watch [on himself] according to Your word [conforming his life to Your precepts].

Darby Translation

BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his path? by taking heed according to thy word.

Julia Smith Translation

In what shall a youth cleanse his way? To watch according to thy word.

King James 2000

[Beth] How shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.

Lexham Expanded Bible

How can a young man keep his way pure? By taking heed according to your word.

Modern King James verseion

BETH: With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

{Beth} Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? Even by ruling himself after thy word.

NET Bible

(Bet) How can a young person maintain a pure life? By guarding it according to your instructions!

New Heart English Bible

BET. How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

The Emphasized Bible

[BETH] Wherewithal can a young man keep pure his way? By taking heed, according to thy word.

Webster

BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed to it, according to thy word.

World English Bible

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Youngs Literal Translation

Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word.

References

Context Readings

Beth

8 I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely. 9 How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word. 10 I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.


Cross References

Psalm 25:7

Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

Titus 2:4-6

Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

James 1:21-25

For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

Deuteronomy 17:18

And when he has taken his place on the seat of his kingdom, he is to make in a book a copy of this law, from that which the priests, the Levites, have in their care:

Joshua 1:7

Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.

2 Chronicles 6:16

So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.

Job 1:5

And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

Job 13:26

For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

Psalm 1:1-3

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

Psalm 19:7-11

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

Psalm 34:11

Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Psalm 78:4-8

We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

Psalm 119:11

I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

Psalm 119:97-105

O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.

Proverbs 1:4

To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

Proverbs 4:1

Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

Proverbs 4:10-17

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

Proverbs 5:7-23

Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

Proverbs 6:20-35

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

Proverbs 7:7

I saw among the young men one without sense,

Ecclesiastes 11:9-1

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Luke 15:13

And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

John 15:3

You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.

2 Timothy 2:22

But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

2 Timothy 3:15-17

And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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