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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my sayings, and, my commandments, treasure by thee;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chastity;   Commandments;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Filial Obedience;   Obedience;   Parents;   Young People;   The Topic Concordance - Life;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Chastity;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Teacher;   Wisdom;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Evil Speaking;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Treasure, Treasury;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My son, obey my words,
Hebrew Names Version
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.
English Standard Version
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.
New English Translation
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].
New American Standard Bible
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My sonne, keepe my wordes, & hide my commandements with thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
My son, keep my wordsAnd treasure my commandments within you.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
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.
Good News Translation
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.
Literal Translation
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.
American Standard Version
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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:
English Revised Version
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.
Update Bible Version
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.
New King James Version
My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you.
New Living Translation
Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands.
New Life Bible
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;
Douay-Rheims Bible
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;
Young's Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.

Contextual Overview

1 My son, keep my sayings, and, my commandments, treasure by thee; 2 Keep my commandments and live, and mine instruction, as the pupil of thine eye; 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them, on the tablet of thy heart; 4 Say unto wisdom, My sister, thou! and, an acquaintance, call thou, understanding: 5 That thou mayest be kept, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who, with her speeches, doth flatter.

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, was, a righteous man blameless, in his generations, - with God, did Noah walk.
Genesis 7:1
And Yahweh said to Noah, Enter thou and all thy house, into the ark, - for, thee, have I seen righteous before me, in this generation.
Genesis 7:4
For in seven days more, I, am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, - so will I wipe out all the living things which I have made, from off the face of the ground.
Genesis 7:5
And Noah did, - according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Now, Noah, was six hundred years old, - when, the flood, came, even waters on the earth.
Genesis 7:7
So Noah entered, and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him into the ark, - from before the waters of the flood,
Genesis 7:8
Of the beasts that were clean, and of the beasts that were not clean, - and of the birds, and everything that creepeth on the ground,
Genesis 7:9
two and two, went they in unto Noah, into the ark male and female,, - as God commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:10
And it came to pass, in the seven days, - that the waters of the flood, came on the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.

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 “sister” and “kinswoman” 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.


 
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