God’s Word Translation
Proverbs 7:2
2Obey my commands so that you may live. Follow my teachings just as you protect the pupil 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, pay attention to my words. Treasure my commands that are within you. Obey my commands so that you may live. Follow my teachings just as you protect the pupil of your eye. 3Tie them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister.” Give the name “my relative” to understanding
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 4:13Cling to discipline. Do not relax your grip on it. Keep it because it is your life.
- Leviticus 18:5Live by my standards, and obey my rules. You will have life through them. I am the Lord.
- Isaiah 55:3Open your ears, and come to me! Listen so that you may live! I will make an everlasting promise to you— the blessings I promised to David.
- John 12:49I have not spoken on my own. Instead, the Father who sent me told me what I should say and how I should say it.
- John 14:21Whoever knows and obeys my commandments is the person who loves me. Those who love me will have my Father’s love, and I, too, will love them and show myself to them.”
- John 15:14You are my friends if you obey my commandments.
- 1 John 2:3We are sure that we know Christ if we obey his commandments.
- 1 John 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God. Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children.
- Revelation 22:14“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.
- Deuteronomy 32:10He found his people in a desert land, in a barren place where animals howl. He guarded them, took care of them, and protected them because they were helpless.
- Psalms 17:8Guard me as if I were the pupil in your eye. Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
- Zechariah 2:8This is what the Lord of Armies says: Afterwards, the Glory sent me to the nations who looted you. Whoever 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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