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Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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New Living Translation
Proverbs 7:2
Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own 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.
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 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 Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands. 2 Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes. 3 Tie them on your fingers as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. 4 Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family. 5 Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman, from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.
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
When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
Genesis 7:8
With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.
With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.
Genesis 7:11
When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
Genesis 7:15
Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes.
Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes.
Genesis 7:19
Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,
Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,
Genesis 7:21
All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people.
All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people.
Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord , and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord , and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.
Leviticus 10:10
You must distinguish between what is sacred and what is common, between what is ceremonially unclean and what is clean.
You must distinguish between what is sacred and what is common, between what is ceremonially unclean and what is clean.
Ezekiel 44:23
They will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is common, what is ceremonially clean and unclean.
They will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is common, what is ceremonially clean and 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.
