Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live.
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.
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.
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 son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments by thee. 2 Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them in the table of thine heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10
"He found him in a desert land, in a void ground and a roaring wilderness. He led him about and gave him understanding, and kept him as the apple of his eye.
Psalm 17:8
Keep me as the apple of an eye; hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Proverbs 4:4
he taught me also, saying, "Let thine heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: With a glorious power hath he sent me out to the Heathen, which spoiled you: for whoso toucheth you, shall touch the apple of his own eye.
Leviticus 18:5
Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments which, if a man do, he shall live thereby: for I am the LORD.
Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of doctrine, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ears, and come unto me, take heed, and your soul shall live. For I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
John 12:49-50
For I have not spoken of myself: but the father which sent me, he gave me a commandment what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 14:21
He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me: and he shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will show mine own self unto him."
John 15:14
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
1 John 2:3-4
And hereby we are sure that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
1 John 5:1-3
All that believe that Jesus is Christ, are born of God. And all that loveth him which begat, loveth him also which was begotten of him.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that their power may be in the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.