Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Keep my commandments and live, and mine instruction, as the pupil 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.

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 sayings, and, my commandments, treasure by thee; 2 Keep my commandments and live, and mine instruction, as the pupil of thine eye; 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them, on the tablet of thy heart;

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:10

He met him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness, - He encompassed him watched over him, Shielded him as the pupil of his own eye.

Psalm 17:8

Guard me, as the pupil of the eye, - Under the shadow of thy wings, wilt thou hide me:

Proverbs 4:4

So he taught me, and said to me - Let thy heart, lay hold of my words, Keep my commandments and live!

Zechariah 2:8

Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, For his own honour, hath he sent me unto the nations that are spoiling you, - Surely, he that toucheth you, toucheth the pupil of mine eye.

Leviticus 18:5

Therefore shall ye observe my statutes, and my regulations, Which if the son of earth shall do them, Then shall he live in them, - I, am Yahweh.

Proverbs 4:13

Take fast hold of correction, let her not go, - keep her, for, she, is thy life.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hearken, That your soul, may live, - That I may solemnise for you a covenant age-abiding, The Lovingkindness to David, well-assured.

John 12:49-50

Because, I, out of myself, spake not, but, the Father who sent me, hath, himself, given me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

John 14:21

He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he, it is that loveth me; and, he that loveth me, shall be loved by my Father, and, I, will love him, and will manifest, myself, unto him.

John 15:14

Ye, are, friends of mine, if ye be doing that which, I, am commanding you.

1 John 2:3-4

And, hereby, perceive we, that we understand him, - if, his commandments, we are keeping.

1 John 5:1-3

Whosoever believeth that, Jesus, is the Christ, of God, hath been born: and, whosoever loveth him that begat, loveth him that hath been begotten of him.

Revelation 22:14

Happy, they who are washing their robes, that their right may be unto the tree of life and, by the gates, they may enter into the city.

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