Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
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.
International Standard Version
Keep my commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight.
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 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, keep my words and store up my commandments within you. 2 Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the pupil of your eye. 3 Bind them upon your fingers; write them upon the tablet of your heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the deserted, howling wilderness. He led him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the pupil of His eye.
Psalm 17:8
Keep me as the pupil, the daughter of the eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings,
Proverbs 4:4
He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live.
Zechariah 2:8
For so says Jehovah of Hosts: He has sent me after glory, to the nations who stripped you; for he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.
Leviticus 18:5
And you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Jehovah.
Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of instruction; do not let go; keep her; for she is your life.
Isaiah 55:3
Bow down your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
John 12:49-50
For I have not spoken of Myself, but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.
John 15:14
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
1 John 2:3-4
And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.
1 John 5:1-3
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who has been born of Him.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they who do His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and they may enter in by the gates into the city.