Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
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.
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.
Darby Translation
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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 law as the apple of thine eye.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Deuteronomy 11:28
and the curse, if ye shall not hearken to the commandments of LORD 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, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
Proverbs 2:1-7
My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,
Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.
Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction.
Luke 8:15
But those in the good ground, these are those who in an good and right heart, having heard the word, hold it firm, and bring forth fruit in perseverance.
Luke 11:28
But he said, Blessed rather, are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, If any man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make a dwelling with him.
John 15:20
Remember the word that I said to you, A bondman is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
Revelation 1:3
Blessed is he who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and who keep the things written in it, for the time is near.
Revelation 22:9
And he says to me, See thou not. I am thy fellow bondman, and of thy brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!