New King James Version
Proverbs 7:2
2Keep my commands and live, And my 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 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 my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, And my law 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 nearest kin,
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 firm hold of instruction, do not let go; Keep her, for she is your life.
- Leviticus 18:5You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
- Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you— The sure mercies of David.
- John 12:49For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
- John 14:21He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he 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 whatever I command you.
- 1 John 2:3Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
- 1 John 5:1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.
- Revelation 22:14Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
- Deuteronomy 32:10“He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
- Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings,
- Zechariah 2:8For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to 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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