Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you.

King James Version

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

Holman Bible

My son, obey my words,
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

My son, keep my words
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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

my words
אמר 
'emer 
Usage: 49

and lay up
צפן 
Tsaphan 
Usage: 32

מצוה 
Mitsvah 
Usage: 181

Context Readings

Warning Against The Strange Woman

1 My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you.
2 keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;

Cross References

Proverbs 1:8

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Deuteronomy 11:28

and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

Job 22:22

Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Proverbs 2:1-7

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Proverbs 10:14

The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

Luke 8:15

As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

Luke 11:28

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

Revelation 1:3

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

Revelation 22:9

but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."

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