Proverbs 7:2

New English Translation

Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

Cross References

Psalm 119:144

Your rules remain just. Give me insight so that I can live. ק (Qof)

Psalm 17:8

Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings!

Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

Proverbs 4:21

Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;

Proverbs 4:4

he taught me, and he said to me: “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.

Isaiah 55:3

Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.

Jeremiah 38:20

Then Jeremiah answered, “You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the Lord by doing what I have been telling you. Then all will go well with you and your life will be spared.

Leviticus 18:5

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.

Zechariah 2:8

For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

John 14:21

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

John 15:14

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Deuteronomy 32:10

The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.