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Proverbs 3:1
1My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart,
Proverbs 3:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
- English Standard Version (ESV)My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
- New King James Version (NKJV)My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands;
- New Living Translation (NLT)My child, never forget the things I have taught you. Store my commands in your heart.
Context of Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, 2for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity. 3Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Read all of Proverbs 3Proverbs 3:1 word by word
בְּ֭נִי תּוֹרָתִ֣י אַל־תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח וּ֝מִצְוֹתַ֗י יִצֹּ֥ר לִבֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 3:1
- Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
- Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them.
- Proverbs 31:5lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.
- Deuteronomy 4:23Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden.
- Psalms 119:93I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.
- Hosea 4:6my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
- Deuteronomy 4:9Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
- Deuteronomy 6:6These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
- Deuteronomy 8:1Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.
- Deuteronomy 30:16For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
- Psalms 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
- Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger.
- Jeremiah 31:33“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- John 14:21Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
Commentaries on Proverbs 3:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1My son - The preceptor continues to deliver his lessons. Forget not my law - Remember what thou hast heard, and practice what thou dost remember; and let all obedience be from the heart: "Let thy heart keep my commandments."Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Exhortations to obedience and faith. (1-6) To piety, and to improve afflictions. (7-12) To gain wisdom. (13-20) Guidance of Wisdom. (21-26) The wicked and the upright. (27-35) Verses 1-6 In the way of believing obedience to God's commandments health and peace may commonly be enjoyed; and though our days may not be long upon earth, we shall live for ever in heaven. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; God's mercy in promising, and his truth in performing…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1Storing God's commands in your heart means more than memorizing them. It involves making them a key part of your life and acting on them.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-351. law [and] commandments--all divine instructions (see on Psa 119:1 and Psa 119:4). let thine heart keep--or sincerely observe (Pr 4:13; 5:2).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 3
- 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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