Proverbs 7:1 “My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.”

Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

World English Bible

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

American Standard Version

My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.

Darby Translation

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

Young's Literal Translation

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

Bible in Basic English

My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

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Cross references

“My son”

Proverbs 1:8 Proverbs 3:1

Proverbs 1:8 · BSB

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

Proverbs 3:1 · BSB

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

“keep”

Luke 11:28 Revelation 1:3 John 14:23 Revelation 22:9 John 15:20 Luke 8:15

Luke 11:28 · BSB

But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Revelation 1:3 · BSB

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.

John 14:23 · BSB

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

Revelation 22:9 · BSB

But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”

John 15:20 · BSB

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

Luke 8:15 · BSB

But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.

“lay”

Proverbs 2:1–7 Job 22:22 Deuteronomy 11:28 Proverbs 10:14

Proverbs 2:1–7 · BSB

My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

Job 22:22 · BSB

Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

Deuteronomy 11:28 · BSB

but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

Proverbs 10:14 · BSB

The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

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