Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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 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 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice. 26 My son, give Me your heart, and let your eyes watch My ways. 27 For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Cross References

Psalm 107:43

Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, they shall understand the mercies of Jehovah.

Matthew 10:37-38

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Deuteronomy 6:5

And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Psalm 119:2

Blessed are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek Him with all the heart.

Psalm 119:9-11

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

Proverbs 3:1

My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments;

Proverbs 4:4

He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Proverbs 4:25-27

Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.

Luke 14:26

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

For the love of Christ constrains us, judging this, that if one died for all, then all died;

2 Corinthians 8:5

And not as we hoped, but first they gave themselves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God,

Ephesians 3:17

that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

2 Peter 1:19

We also have a more sure Word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts,

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