Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

My son, guard what I say and treasure my commands.

New American Standard Bible

My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you.

King James Version

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

Holman Bible

My son, obey my words,
and treasure my commands.

A Conservative Version

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

American Standard Version

My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.

Amplified

My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you [so they are readily available to guide you].

Bible in Basic English

My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

Darby Translation

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

Julia Smith Translation

My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee.

King James 2000

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.

Modern King James verseion

My son, keep my words and store up my commandments within you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments by thee.

NET Bible

My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.

New Heart English Bible

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

World English Bible

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

Youngs Literal Translation

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

my words
אמר 
'emer 
Usage: 49

and lay up
צפן 
Tsaphan 
Usage: 32

מצוה 
Mitsvah 
Usage: 181

Context Readings

Warning Against The Strange Woman

1 My son, guard what I say and treasure my commands. 2 Keep my commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight.


Cross References

Proverbs 1:8

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.

Deuteronomy 11:28

or a curse if you don't obey the commands of the LORD your God, by turning from the way that I'm commanding you today and following other gods whom you have not known."

Job 22:22

Accept what he has to teach you, and treasure his words in your heart.

Proverbs 2:1-7

My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions

Proverbs 3:1

My son, don't forget my instruction, and keep my commandments carefully in mind.

Proverbs 10:14

Those who are wise store up knowledge, but when the fool speaks, destruction is near.

Luke 8:15

But the ones on the good soil are the people who hear the word but also hold on to it with good and honest hearts, producing a crop through endurance."

Luke 11:28

But he said, "Instead, how blessed are those who hear God's word and obey it!"

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.

John 15:20

Remember what I told you: "A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

Revelation 1:3

How blessed is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and obey what is written in it, for the time is near!

Revelation 22:9

But he told me, "Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you, your brothers the prophets, and those who keep the words in this book. Worship God!"

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