Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes delight in my ways.

King James Version

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

Holman Bible

My son, give me your heart,
and let your eyes observe my ways.

International Standard Version

Give me your heart, my son, and keep your eyes fixed on my ways,

American Standard Version

My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

Amplified


My son, give me your heart
And let your eyes delight in my ways,

Bible in Basic English

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

Darby Translation

My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

Julia Smith Translation

My son, thou shalt give thy heart to me, and thine eyes shall delight in my way.

King James 2000

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.

Modern King James verseion

My son, give Me your heart, and let your eyes watch My ways.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes have pleasure in my ways.

NET Bible

Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

New Heart English Bible

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

The Emphasized Bible

Oh give, my son, thy mind unto me, and let, thine eyes, observe, my ways;

Webster

My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.

World English Bible

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Youngs Literal Translation

Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

Verse Info

Context Readings

Learning From Your Father

25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice. 26 Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes delight in my ways.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Cross References

Psalm 107:43

Who is wise and will observe these things and shall understand the mercies of the LORD?

Matthew 10:37-38

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Deuteronomy 6:5

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.

Psalm 119:2

Blessed are those that keep his testimonies and that seek him with their whole heart.

Psalm 119:9-11

BETH. With what shall a young man cleanse his way? when he shall keep thy word.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Proverbs 4:4

He taught me and said unto me, Sustain thine heart with my words; keep my commandments, and live.

Proverbs 4:23

Above all else, guard thy heart; for out of it flows the issues of life.

Proverbs 4:25-27

Let thine eyes look upon that which is right, and let thine eyelids straighten thy path before thee.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise that he might understand this? and prudent that he might know this? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the rebellious shall fall therein.

Luke 14:26

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

For the charity of the Christ constrains us because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all are dead:

2 Corinthians 8:5

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord and then unto us by the will of God.

Ephesians 3:17

that the Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in charity,

2 Peter 1:19

We have also the most sure word of the prophets, unto which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,

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