Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments by 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.
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.
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 by thee. 2 Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Deuteronomy 11:28
and a curse, if ye will not hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God: but turn out of the way which I command you this day to go after strange gods which ye have not known.'
Job 22:22
Receive the law at his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Proverbs 2:1-7
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and keep my commandments by thee,
Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my law, but see that thine heart keep my commandments.
Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is nigh destruction.
Luke 8:15
That in the good ground, are they which with a good and pure heart, hear the word, and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Luke 11:28
But he said, "Yea, happy are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."
John 14:23
Jesus answered, and said unto him, "If a man love me and will keep my sayings, my father also will love him, and we will come unto him, and will dwell with him.
John 15:20
Remember the saying, that I said unto you, 'The servant is not greater than the Lord.' If they have persecuted me, so will they persecute you. If they have kept my saying, so will they keep yours.
Revelation 1:3
Happy is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein. For the time is at hand.
Revelation 22:9
And he said unto me, "See thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant and the fellow servant of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book. But worship God."