Proverbs 7:2

In 11 translations

BSB

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.Literally the pupil

KJV

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

WEB

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

ASV

Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.

LSV

Keep my commands, and live, || And my law as the pupil of your eye.

YLT

Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

DBY

Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.

DRC

Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:

GNV

Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.

JPS

Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of thine eye.

LXXE

keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

שְׁמֹ֣ר מִצְוֺתַ֣י וֶחְיֵ֑ה וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃

LXX-Br

φύλαξον ἐμὰς ἐντολὰς καὶ βιώσεις, τοὺς δὲ ἐμοὺς λόγους ὥσπερ κόρας ὀμμάτων.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
• Leviticus 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
• 1 John 2:3–4By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
• Proverbs 4:4he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.
• 1 John 5:1–3Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His…
• John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
• Proverbs 4:13Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
• John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
• John 12:49–50I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it. And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
• Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
• Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
• Zechariah 2:8For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
• Revelation 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

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