Proverbs 7:2

New International Reader's Version

Obey my commands and you will live. Guard my teachings as you would guard your own eyes.

Cross References

Psalm 119:144

Your covenant laws are always right. Help me to understand them. Then I will live.

Psalm 17:8

Take good care of me, just as you would take care of your own eyes. Hide me in the shadow of your wings.

Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to my teaching and don’t let it go. Guard it well, because it is your life.

Proverbs 4:21

Don’t let them out of your sight. Keep them in your heart.

Proverbs 4:4

Then my father taught me. He said to me, “Take hold of my words with all your heart. Keep my commands, and you will live.

Isaiah 55:3

Listen and come to me. Pay attention to me. Then you will live. I will make a covenant with you that will last forever. I will give you my faithful love. I promised it to David.

Jeremiah 38:20

“They won’t hand you over to them,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the Lord. Do what I tell you to do. Then things will go well with you. Your life will be spared.

Leviticus 18:5

Keep my rules and laws. The one who obeys them will benefit from living by them. I am the Lord.

Zechariah 2:8

The Lord rules over all. His angel says to Israel, “The Glorious One has sent me to punish the nations that have robbed you of everything. That’s because anyone who hurts you hurts those the Lord loves and guards.

John 14:21

Anyone who has my commands and obeys them loves me. My Father will love the one who loves me. I too will love them. And I will show myself to them.”

John 15:14

You are my friends if you do what I command.

Deuteronomy 32:10

The Lord found Israel in a desert. He found them in an empty and windy land. He took care of them and kept them safe. He guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.

Revelation 22:14

“Blessed are those who wash their robes. They will have the right to come to the tree of life. They will be allowed to go through the gates into the city.