Proverbs 4:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do not let them escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart.

American Standard Version (1901)

Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

Common English Bible

Don’t let them slip from your sight. Guard them in your mind.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Let them not recede from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:

Proverbs 4:21 Cross References

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Proverbs 2:1

My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,

Proverbs 22:18

for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Proverbs 3:1

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Proverbs 3:21

My child, do not let these escape from your sight: keep sound wisdom and prudence,

Proverbs 3:3

Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 6:21

Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.

Proverbs 7:3

bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Deuteronomy 4:9

“But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children—