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Literal Standard Version
Proverbs 7:1
My son! Keep my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you.
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Christian Standard Bible®
My son, obey my words,
My son, obey my words,
Hebrew Names Version
My son, keep my words. Lay up my mitzvot within you.
My son, keep my words. Lay up my mitzvot within you.
King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
English Standard Version
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;
New Century Version
My son, remember what I say, and treasure my commands.
My son, remember what I say, and treasure my commands.
New English Translation
My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.
My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.
Amplified Bible
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you [so they are readily available to guide you].
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you [so they are readily available to guide you].
New American Standard Bible
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
World English Bible
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My sonne, keepe my wordes, & hide my commandements with thee.
My sonne, keepe my wordes, & hide my commandements with thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
My son, keep my wordsAnd treasure my commandments within you.
My son, keep my wordsAnd treasure my commandments within you.
Berean Standard Bible
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
Contemporary English Version
My son, pay close attention and don't forget what I tell you to do.
My son, pay close attention and don't forget what I tell you to do.
Complete Jewish Bible
My son, keep my words, store up my commands with you.
My son, keep my words, store up my commands with you.
Darby Translation
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
My son, remember my words. Don't forget what I have told you.
My son, remember my words. Don't forget what I have told you.
George Lamsa Translation
MY son, keep my words and hide my commandments within you.
MY son, keep my words and hide my commandments within you.
Good News Translation
My child, remember what I say and never forget what I tell you to do.
My child, remember what I say and never forget what I tell you to do.
Lexham English Bible
My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.
My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.
Literal Translation
My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My sonne, kepe my wordes, & laye vp my comaundemetes by the.
My sonne, kepe my wordes, & laye vp my comaundemetes by the.
American Standard Version
My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
Bible in Basic English
My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
King James Version (1611)
My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.
My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My sonne kepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements by thee.
My sonne kepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements by thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. My son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:
My son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. My son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:
English Revised Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi sone, kepe thou my wordis; and kepe myn heestis to thee. Sone, onoure thou the Lord, and thou schalt be `myyti; but outakun hym drede thou not an alien.
Mi sone, kepe thou my wordis; and kepe myn heestis to thee. Sone, onoure thou the Lord, and thou schalt be `myyti; but outakun hym drede thou not an alien.
Update Bible Version
My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with you.
My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with you.
Webster's Bible Translation
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
New King James Version
My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you.
My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you.
New Living Translation
Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands.
Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands.
New Life Bible
My son, keep my words, and hold together my teachings within you.
My son, keep my words, and hold together my teachings within you.
New Revised Standard
My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you;
My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My son, keep my sayings, and, my commandments, treasure by thee;
My son, keep my sayings, and, my commandments, treasure by thee;
Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,
My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,
Revised Standard Version
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;
Young's Literal Translation
My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
THE MESSAGE
Dear friend, do what I tell you; treasure my careful instructions. Do what I say and you'll live well. My teaching is as precious as your eyesight—guard it! Write it out on the back of your hands; etch it on the chambers of your heart. Talk to Wisdom as to a sister. Treat Insight as your companion. They'll be with you to fend off the Temptress— that smooth-talking, honey-tongued Seductress.
Dear friend, do what I tell you; treasure my careful instructions. Do what I say and you'll live well. My teaching is as precious as your eyesight—guard it! Write it out on the back of your hands; etch it on the chambers of your heart. Talk to Wisdom as to a sister. Treat Insight as your companion. They'll be with you to fend off the Temptress— that smooth-talking, honey-tongued Seductress.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
Contextual Overview
1My son! Keep my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you.2Keep my commands, and live, || And my law as the pupil of your eye. 3Bind them on your fingers, || Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, "You [are] my sister." And cry to understanding, "Relative!" 5To preserve you from a strange woman, || From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
My son: Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 3:1
keep: Luke 8:15, Luke 11:28, John 14:23, John 15:20, Revelation 1:3, Revelation 22:9
lay: Proverbs 2:1-7, Proverbs 10:14, Deuteronomy 11:28, Job 22:22
Reciprocal: Genesis 49:2 - hearken Deuteronomy 4:9 - lest they Psalms 90:12 - that Proverbs 4:20 - General Proverbs 6:20 - General John 5:38 - ye have 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as Hebrews 2:1 - the more
Cross-References
Genesis 6:9
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; he has been perfect among his generations; Noah has habitually walked with God.
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; he has been perfect among his generations; Noah has habitually walked with God.
Genesis 7:1
And YHWH says to Noah, "Come, you and all your house, into the Ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before Me in this generation;
And YHWH says to Noah, "Come, you and all your house, into the Ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before Me in this generation;
Genesis 7:4
for after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground."
for after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground."
Genesis 7:5
And Noah does according to all that YHWH has commanded him.
And Noah does according to all that YHWH has commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
And Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters has been on the earth.
And Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters has been on the earth.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah goes—and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him—into the Ark, out of the presence of the waters of the flood;
And Noah goes—and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him—into the Ark, out of the presence of the waters of the flood;
Genesis 7:8
from the clean beast, and from the beast that [is] not clean, and from the bird, and of everything that is creeping on the ground,
from the clean beast, and from the beast that [is] not clean, and from the bird, and of everything that is creeping on the ground,
Genesis 7:9
they have come to Noah two by two into the Ark, a male and a female, as God has commanded Noah.
they have come to Noah two by two into the Ark, a male and a female, as God has commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:10
And it comes to pass, after seven days, that waters of the flood have been on the earth.
And it comes to pass, after seven days, that waters of the flood have been on the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all [the] fountains of the great deep have been broken up, and the network of the heavens has been opened,
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all [the] fountains of the great deep have been broken up, and the network of the heavens has been opened,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My son, keep my words,.... Doctrines and instructions; which, as a father to a son, or a master to his scholars, he had delivered; these he would have him observe and attend to;
and lay up my commandments with thee: as a treasure in his heart, to be brought out upon occasion; to be kept as valuable, and made use of as an antidote against and a preservative from sinning; see Psalms 119:11. The Septuagint and Arabic versions add, what is not in the Hebrew text,
"son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong;''
the Arabic adds,
"and he shall strengthen thee; and fear none besides him.''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The harlot adulteress of an Eastern city is contrasted with the true feminine ideal of the Wisdom who is to be the âsisterâ and âkinswomanâ Proverbs 7:4 of the young man as he goes on his way through life. See Proverbs 8:0 in the introduction.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER VII
A farther exhortation to acquire wisdom, in order to be
preserved from impure connections, 1-5.
The character of a harlot, and her conduct towards a youth who
fell into her snare, 6-23.
Solemn exhortations to avoid this evil, 24-27.
NOTES ON CHAP. VII
Verse Proverbs 7:1. My son, keep my words — See Proverbs 2:1.
