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Proverbs 7:2
2Keep my commandments and live, And keep my teaching and law as the apple of your eye.
Proverbs 7:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
- New International Version (NIV)Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
- English Standard Version (ESV)keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
- New King James Version (NKJV)Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye.
Context of Proverbs 7:2
1My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you [so they are readily available to guide you]. Keep my commandments and live, And keep my teaching and law as the apple of your eye. 3Bind them [securely] on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Say to [skillful and godly] wisdom, “You are my sister,” And regard understanding and intelligent insight as your intimate friends;
Read all of Proverbs 7Proverbs 7:2 word by word
שְׁמֹ֣ר מִצְוֹתַ֣י וֶחְיֵ֑ה וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 7:2
- Proverbs 4:13Take hold of instruction; [actively seek it, grip it firmly and] do not let go. Guard her, for she is your life.
- Leviticus 18:5So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which, if a person keeps them, he shall live; I am the Lord.
- Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear [to listen] and come to Me; Hear, so that your soul may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, According to the faithful mercies [promised and] shown to David.
- John 12:49For I have never spoken on My own initiative or authority, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment regarding what to say and what to speak.
- John 14:21The person who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him [I will make Myself real to him].”
- John 15:14You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you.
- 1 John 2:3And this is how we know [daily, by experience] that we have come to know Him [to understand Him and be more deeply acquainted with Him]: if we habitually keep [focused on His precepts and obey] His commandments (teachings).
- 1 John 5:1Everyone who believes [with a deep, abiding trust in the fact] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) is born of God [that is, reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], and everyone who loves the Father also loves the child born of Him.
- Revelation 22:14Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) are those who wash their robes [in the blood of Christ by believing and trusting in Him—the righteous who do His commandments], so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.
- Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, In the howling wasteland of a wilderness; He kept circling him, He took care of him, He protected him as the apple of His eye.
- Psalms 17:8Keep me [in Your affectionate care, protect me] as the apple of Your eye; Hide me in the [protective] shadow of Your wings
- Zechariah 2:8For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After glory He has sent Me against the nations which plunder you—for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.
Commentaries on Proverbs 7:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2As the apple of thine eye - As the pupil of the eye, which is of such essential necessity to sight, and so easily injured.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2guard my teachings as the apple of your eye: Or, with great care.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271-4. Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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