Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

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.

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 sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. 2 Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:8

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

Deuteronomy 11:28

and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

Job 22:22

Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

Proverbs 2:1-7

My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

Proverbs 3:1

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

Proverbs 10:14

The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool is near ruin.

Luke 8:15

And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain it, and bear fruit in continuance.

Luke 11:28

And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

John 14:23

Jesus answered and said to him, 'If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

John 15:20

'Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

Revelation 1:3

Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the time is nigh!

Revelation 22:9

and he saith to me, 'See -- not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.'

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