Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.
New American Standard Bible
And my
King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Holman Bible
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.
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
Shamar
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 7:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Against The Strange Woman
1 My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you. 2 Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}. 3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he {encircled him}, he cared for him, he protected him like the {apple} of his eye.
Psalm 17:8
Keep me as {the apple of your eye}. Hide me in the shadow of your wings
Proverbs 4:4
he taught me and said to me, "May your heart hold fast [to] my words; guard my commandments and live.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus said Yahweh of hosts, after glory he sent me against the nations plundering you: Truly, the one touching you [is] touching the apple of his eye.
Leviticus 18:5
And you shall observe my statutes and my regulations {by which the person doing them shall live}; I [am] Yahweh.
Proverbs 4:13
Seize the instruction! Do not let go! Guard her, for she is your life.
Isaiah 55:3
Extend your ear, and come to me! Listen so that your soul may live, and I will {make} an everlasting covenant with you, the enduring proofs of {the mercies shown to} David.
John 12:49-50
For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father himself who sent me {has commanded me} what I should say and what I should speak.
John 14:21
The one who has my commandments and keeps them--that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."
John 15:14
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
1 John 2:3-4
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 John 5:1-3
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves {the father} also loves the [child] fathered by him.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed [are] the ones who wash their robes, so that their authority will be over the tree of life and they may enter into the city through the gates.