Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up 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.
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.
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 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.'