Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live.
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, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping. 2 Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession. 3 Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10
The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.
Psalm 17:8
Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings!
Proverbs 4:4
he taught me, and he said to me: "Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.
Zechariah 2:8
For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you -- for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.
Leviticus 18:5
So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.
Proverbs 4:13
Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.
Isaiah 55:3
Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
John 12:49-50
For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.
John 14:21
The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. 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
Now by this we know that we have come to know God: 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 loves the child fathered by him.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.