Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
New American Standard Bible
And treasure my commandments within you.
King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Holman Bible
and treasure my commands.
International Standard Version
My son, guard what I say and treasure my commands.
A Conservative Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
American Standard Version
My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
Amplified
And treasure my commandments within you [so they are readily available to guide you].
Bible in Basic English
My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
Julia Smith Translation
My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee.
King James 2000
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.
Modern King James verseion
My son, keep my words and store up my commandments within you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments by thee.
NET Bible
My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.
New Heart English Bible
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
The Emphasized Bible
My son, keep my sayings, and, my commandments, treasure by thee;
Webster
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
World English Bible
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
Youngs Literal Translation
My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
Themes
Chastity » Preserved by wisdom
Children » Dishonouring parents » Filial obedience encouraged
Obedience » Filial » Filial obedience encouraged
Interlinear
Shamar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 7:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Against The Strange Woman
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
Deuteronomy 11:28
and a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.
Job 22:22
Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
Proverbs 2:1-7
My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,
Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments;
Proverbs 10:14
The wise lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the fool is near destruction.
Luke 8:15
But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Luke 11:28
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.
John 15:20
Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.
Revelation 1:3
Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things written in it; for the time is near.
Revelation 22:9
And he says to me, See thou do it not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and the fellow-bondman of thy brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Do homage to God.