Proverbs 2:1

In 11 translations

BSB

My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

KJV

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

WEB

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

ASV

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;

LSV

My son, if you accept my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you,

YLT

My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

DBY

My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,

DRC

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,

GNV

My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,

JPS

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;

LXXE

My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee;

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Original-language editions

WLC

בְּ֭נִי אִם־תִּקַּ֣ח אֲמָרָ֑י וּ֝מִצְוֺתַ֗י תִּצְפֹּ֥ן אִתָּֽךְ׃

LXX-Br

Υἱὲ, ἐὰν δεξάμενος ῥῆσιν ἐμῆς ἐντολῆς κρύψῃς παρὰ σεαυτῷ,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
• Proverbs 1:3and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.
• Proverbs 4:1Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
• John 12:47–48As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The…
• Deuteronomy 6:6–9These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when…
• Proverbs 7:1My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
• Proverbs 4:20–22My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
• Proverbs 6:21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
• Psalms 119:9–11How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word. With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments. I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin…
• Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
• Proverbs 4:10Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
• Luke 2:19But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
• Matthew 13:44The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.
• Luke 9:44“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”
• Luke 2:51Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
• 1 Timothy 1:15This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

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