Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Keep my commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight.
New American Standard Bible
And my
King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Holman Bible
protect my teachings
as the pupil of your eye.
A Conservative Version
Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.
American Standard Version
Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
Amplified
Keep my commandments and live,
And keep my teaching and law as the apple of your 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;
Darby Translation
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
Julia Smith Translation
Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil of thine eyes.
King James 2000
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.
Modern King James verseion
Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Keep my commandments and my law, even as the apple of thine eye, and thou shalt live.
NET Bible
Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
New Heart English Bible
Keep my commandments and live. Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
The Emphasized Bible
Keep my commandments and live, and mine instruction, as the pupil of thine eye;
Webster
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.
World English Bible
Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Youngs Literal Translation
Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.
Interlinear
Shamar
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 7:2
Verse Info
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. 3 Strap them to your fingers and engrave them on the tablet of your heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10
The LORD found him in a desert land, in a barren, eerie wilderness. He surrounded, cared for, and guarded him as the pupil of his eye.
Psalm 17:8
Protect me as the most precious part of the eye; hide me under the shadow of your wings
Proverbs 4:4
he taught me and told me, "Let your heart fully embrace what I have to say; keep my commandments and live!
Zechariah 2:8
For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In pursuit of glory I was sent to the nations who plundered you, because whoever injures you injures the pupil of my eye.
Leviticus 18:5
Keep my statutes and my ordinances, which a person is to obey in order to live in them. I am the LORD.
Proverbs 4:13
Hold on to instruction, do not let it go! Guard wisdom, because she is your life!
Isaiah 55:3
Pay attention to me, come to me; and listen, so that you may live; then I'll make an everlasting covenant with you, as promised by my faithful, sure love for David.
John 12:49-50
because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.
John 14:21
The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him."
John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
1 John 2:3-4
This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.
1 John 5:1-3
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.
Revelation 22:14
"How blessed are those who wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city!