English Standard Version
Proverbs 7:2
2keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes.
Context of Proverbs 7:2
1My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 3bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend,
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 4:13Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
- Leviticus 18:5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
- Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
- John 12:49For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.
- John 14:21Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
- John 15:14You are my friends if you do what I command you.
- 1 John 2:3And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
- 1 John 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
- Revelation 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
- Deuteronomy 32:10"He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,
- Zechariah 2:8For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered 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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