Proverbs 4:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.

Common English Bible

¹³ Hold on to instruction; don’t slack off; protect it, for it is your life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Take hold of discipline. Do not dismiss it. Guard it, for it is your life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.

Proverbs 4:13 Cross References

Genesis 32:26

Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.”

Proverbs 10:17

He who heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.

Proverbs 3:22

and they will be life for your soul and adornment for your neck.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Proverbs 8:35

For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord;

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money; and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Song of Solomon 3:4

Scarcely had I passed them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

John 6:63

It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life;

Acts 11:23

When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose;

Acts 2:42

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Deuteronomy 32:47

For it is no trifle for you, but it is your life, and thereby you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but test everything; hold fast what is good,

Hebrews 2:1

Therefore we must pay the closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Revelation 12:11

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Revelation 2:13

“ ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is; you hold fast my name and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.