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Proverbs 7:2
Consider my teaching as precious as your own eyes. Obey my commands, and you will have a good life.
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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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
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, remember my words. Don't forget what I have told you. 2 Consider my teaching as precious as your own eyes. Obey my commands, and you will have a good life. 3 Tie them around your finger. Write them on your heart. 4 Treat wisdom like the woman you love and knowledge like the one dearest to you. 5 Wisdom will save you from that other woman, the other man's wife, who tempts you with such sweet words.
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
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are a good man, even among the evil people of this time. So gather your family, and all of you go into the boat.
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are a good man, even among the evil people of this time. So gather your family, and all of you go into the boat.
Genesis 7:8
All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth
All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth
Genesis 7:11
On the 17th day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, the springs under the earth broke through the ground, and water flowed out everywhere. The sky also opened like windows and rain poured down. The rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. That same day Noah went into the boat with his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
On the 17th day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, the springs under the earth broke through the ground, and water flowed out everywhere. The sky also opened like windows and rain poured down. The rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. That same day Noah went into the boat with his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
Genesis 7:15
All these animals went into the boat with Noah. They came in groups of two from every kind of animal that had the breath of life.
All these animals went into the boat with Noah. They came in groups of two from every kind of animal that had the breath of life.
Genesis 7:19
The water rose so much that even the highest mountains were covered by the water.
The water rose so much that even the highest mountains were covered by the water.
Genesis 7:21
Every living thing on earth died—every man and woman, every bird, and every kind of animal. All the many kinds of animals and all the things that crawl on the ground died. Every living, breathing thing on dry land died.
Every living thing on earth died—every man and woman, every bird, and every kind of animal. All the many kinds of animals and all the things that crawl on the ground died. Every living, breathing thing on dry land died.
Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord . Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God.
Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord . Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God.
Leviticus 10:10
You must be able to clearly tell the difference between what is holy and what is not holy, between what is clean and what is unclean.
You must be able to clearly tell the difference between what is holy and what is not holy, between what is clean and what is unclean.
Ezekiel 44:23
"Also, the priests must teach my people the difference between things that are holy and things that are not holy. They must help my people know what is clean and what is unclean.
"Also, the priests must teach my people the difference between things that are holy and things that are not holy. They must help my people know 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.
