Proverbs 7:2

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.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.

King James Version
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;

New Century Version
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.

Amplified Bible
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.

World English Bible
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.

Legacy Standard Bible
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.

Contemporary English Version
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.

Darby Translation
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.

George Lamsa Translation
Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.

Lexham English Bible
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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

King James Version (1611)
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.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New Living Translation
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.

New Revised Standard
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;

Douay-Rheims Bible
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;

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Contextual Overview

¹ My child, remember what I say and never forget what I tell you to do. ² Do what I say, and you will live. Be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes. ³ Keep my teaching with you all the time; write it on your heart. ⁴ Treat wisdom as your sister, and insight as your closest friend. ⁵ They will keep you away from other men's wives, from women with seductive 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
The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.

Genesis 7:8
A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Genesis 7:15
A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,

Genesis 7:19
It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;

Genesis 7:21
Every living being on the earth died—every bird, every animal, and every person.

Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to the Lord ; he took one of each kind of ritually clean animal and bird, and burned them whole as a sacrifice on the altar.

Leviticus 10:10
You must distinguish between what belongs to God and what is for general use, between what is ritually clean and what is unclean.

Ezekiel 44:23
"The priests are to teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is not, and between what is ritually clean and what is not.

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.