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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Proverbs 7:2
Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
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Christian Standard Bible®
Keep my commands and live,and guard my instructionsas you would the pupil of your eye.
Keep my commands and live,and guard my instructionsas you would the pupil of your eye.
Hebrew Names Version
Keep my mitzvot and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Keep my mitzvot and live; Guard 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.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
English Standard Version
keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
New Century Version
Obey my commands, and you will live. Guard my teachings as you would your own eyes.
Obey my commands, and you will live. Guard my teachings as you would your own eyes.
New English Translation
Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
Amplified Bible
Keep my commandments and live, And keep my teaching and law as the apple of your eye.
Keep my commandments and live, And keep my teaching and law as the apple of your eye.
New American Standard Bible
Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
World English Bible
Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Keep my commandments and live,And my law as the apple of your eye.
Keep my commandments and live,And my law as the apple of your eye.
Berean Standard Bible
Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Contemporary English Version
Obey me, and you will live! Let my instructions be your greatest treasure.
Obey me, and you will live! Let my instructions be your greatest treasure.
Complete Jewish Bible
Obey my commands, and live; guard my teaching like the pupil of your eye.
Obey my commands, and live; guard my teaching like the pupil of your eye.
Darby Translation
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
Easy-to-Read Version
Consider my teaching as precious as your own eyes. Obey my commands, and you will have a good life.
Consider my teaching as precious as your own eyes. Obey my commands, and you will have a good life.
George Lamsa Translation
Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.
Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.
Good News Translation
Do what I say, and you will live. Be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes.
Do what I say, and you will live. Be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes.
Lexham English Bible
Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like the apple of your eye.
Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like the apple of your eye.
Literal Translation
Keep my commands and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.
Keep my commands and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kepe my comaundemetes & my lawe, eue as the aple of thine eye, & thou shalt lyue.
Kepe my comaundemetes & my lawe, eue as the aple of thine eye, & thou shalt lyue.
American Standard Version
Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of thine eye.
Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of thine eye.
King James Version (1611)
Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kepe my commaundementes & my lawe, euen as the apple of thyne eye, and thou shalt liue.
Kepe my commaundementes & my lawe, euen as the apple of thyne eye, and thou shalt liue.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.
keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.
English Revised Version
Keep my commandments and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Keep my commandments and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Kepe thou myn heestis, and thou schalt lyue; and my lawe as the appil of thin iyen.
Kepe thou myn heestis, and thou schalt lyue; and my lawe as the appil of thin iyen.
Update Bible Version
Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of your eye.
Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of your eye.
Webster's Bible Translation
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.
New King James Version
Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye.
Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye.
New Living Translation
Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes.
Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes.
New Life Bible
Keep my words and live. Keep my teachings as you would your own eye.
Keep my words and live. Keep my teachings as you would your own eye.
New Revised Standard
keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Keep my commandments and live, and mine instruction, as the pupil of thine eye;
Keep my commandments and live, and mine instruction, as the pupil of thine eye;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
Revised Standard Version
keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
Young's Literal Translation
Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.
Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Contextual Overview
1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you. 2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes; 3 Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend: 5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Keep: Proverbs 4:13, Leviticus 18:5, Isaiah 55:3, John 12:49, John 12:50, John 14:21, John 15:14, 1 John 2:3, 1 John 2:4, 1 John 5:1-3, Revelation 22:14
as the: As the pupil of the eye, the hole or the opening of the uveous coat, or iris, through which the rays of light pass, and falling upon the retina, there depict every object in its natural colour, as upon a piece of white paper. Now the pupil of the eye being essentially necessary to sight, and easily injured, it is not only, in common with the other parts, deeply entrenched in the skull, ramparted with the forehead and cheek bones, defended by the eyebrows, eyelids, and eyelashes, and placed so as to be best protected by the hands, but, by a wonderful mechanism, is contracted or dilated by the muscular power of the iris, without which an excess of light would cause instant blindness. Deuteronomy 32:10, Psalms 17:8, Zechariah 2:8
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 11:18 - ye lay up Proverbs 4:4 - keep John 5:38 - ye have Hebrews 2:1 - the more
Cross-References
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
Genesis 7:8
Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,
Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
Genesis 7:15
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
Genesis 7:19
And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.
And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.
Genesis 7:21
And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.
And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.
Genesis 8:20
And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.
And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.
Leviticus 10:10
And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
Ezekiel 44:23
And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.
And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Keep my commandments and live,.... Not the commandments of the law only, but the commandments of Christ; and even the doctrines of Christ are so called, as faith in him, and love to the saints, 1 John 3:23; which is the way to live comfortably, peaceably, pleasantly, and honourably;
and my law as the apple of thine eye; the doctrine of Christ, the law of the Lord, that goes out of Zion; which should be as dear to men as the apple of their eye, and as carefully preserved, that the least injury is not done to it; it should be kept inviolate.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 7:2. As the apple of thine eye. — As the pupil of the eye, which is of such essential necessity to sight, and so easily injured.
