New American Standard Bible 2020
Proverbs 7:2
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. Keep my commandments and live, And 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 understanding your intimate friend,
Read all of Proverbs 7Proverbs 7:2 word by word
שְׁמֹ֣ר מִצְוֹתַ֣י וֶחְיֵ֑ה וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 7:2
- Proverbs 4:13Take hold of instruction; do not let go. Guard her, for she is your life.
- Leviticus 18:5So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which, if a person follows them, then he will live by them; I am the Lord.
- Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, According to the faithful mercies shown to David.
- John 12:49For I did not speak on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.
- John 14:21The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
- John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- 1 John 2:3By 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 the child born of Him.
- Revelation 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates.
- Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings
- Zechariah 2:8For the Lord of armies says this: “After glory He has sent me against the nations that plunder you, for the one 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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