Parallel Verses
Webster
My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.
New American Standard Bible
And let your eyes
King James Version
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Holman Bible
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;
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.
Themes
divine Call » Heal persecution of » To consecration
Consecration » A call to personal
Topics
Interlinear
Nathan
Leb
`ayin
Ratsah
Word Count of 19 Translations in Proverbs 23:26
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 My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways. 27 For a lewd woman 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, even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the LORD.
Matthew 10:37-38
He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.
Deuteronomy 6:5
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Psalm 119:2
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Psalm 119:9-11
BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed to it, according to thy word.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my law; but let thy heart keep my commandments;
Proverbs 4:4
He taught me also, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs 4:25-27
Let thy eyes look right on, and let thy eyelids look straight before thee.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.
Luke 14:26
If any man cometh to me, and hateth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
2 Corinthians 8:5
And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God:
Ephesians 3:17
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
2 Peter 1:19
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which ye do well that ye take heed, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: