Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.

New American Standard Bible

Keep my commandments and live,
And my teaching as the apple of your eye.

King James Version

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Holman Bible

Keep my commands and live;
protect my teachings
as the pupil of your eye.

International Standard Version

Keep my commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight.

American Standard Version

Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.

Amplified


Keep my commandments and live,
And keep my teaching and law as the apple of your eye.

Bible in Basic English

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

Darby Translation

Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.

Julia Smith Translation

Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil of thine eyes.

King James 2000

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.

Modern King James verseion

Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the pupil of your eye.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live.

NET Bible

Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

New Heart English Bible

Keep my commandments and live. Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

The Emphasized Bible

Keep my commandments and live, and mine instruction, as the pupil of thine eye;

Webster

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.

World English Bible

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Youngs Literal Translation

Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

Interlinear

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

מצוה 
Mitsvah 
Usage: 181

and live
חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

and my law
תּרה תּורה 
Towrah 
law
Usage: 219

as the apple
אישׁון 
'iyshown 
Usage: 5

References

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. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers. Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness. He compassed him about. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Proverbs 4:4

And he taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus says LORD of hosts: After glory he has sent me to the nations which plundered you. For he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

Leviticus 18:5

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am LORD.

Proverbs 4:13

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the {faithful holy things (LXX/NT)} of David.

John 12:49-50

Because I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

John 14:21

He who has my commandments, and keeps them, that man it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 15:14

Ye are my friends, if ye do as many things as I command you.

1 John 2:3-4

And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 5:1-3

Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those doing his commandments, so that their right will be to the tree of life, and they may enter in the gates into the city.

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