Proverbs 7:2 {3}
Good News Translation
Do what I say, and you will live. Be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes.

New Revised Standard Version
keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;

Contemporary English Version
Obey me, and you will live! Let my instructions be your greatest treasure.

New American Bible
Keep my commands and live, and my teaching as the apple of your eye;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.

keep

Proverbs 4:13 Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.

Leviticus 18:5 Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

John 12:49,50 For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak. . . .

John 14:21 He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

1 John 2:3,4 And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. . . .

1 John 5:1-3 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him. . . .

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.

as the

Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Psalm 17:8 From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.

Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the glory he hath sent me to the nations that have robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of my eye:

Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
1Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye: 2Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.3Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Psalm 17:8
From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.

Proverbs 4:4
Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:21
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.

Zechariah 2:8
For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the glory he hath sent me to the nations that have robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of my eye:

Proverbs 7:1
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