Proverbs 4:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:31

But Jehu was not careful to follow the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam that he caused Israel to commit.

Proverbs 11:16

A gracious woman gets honor, but she who hates virtue is covered with shame. The timid become destitute, but the aggressive gain riches.

Proverbs 13:3

Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives; those who open wide their lips come to ruin.

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their way preserve their lives.

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; the cautious will keep far from them.

Proverbs 23:19

Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.

Proverbs 28:26

Those who trust in their own wits are fools, but those who walk in wisdom come through safely.

Proverbs 3:21

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

Proverbs 4:7

The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous ill that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owners to their hurt,

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?

Matthew 15:18

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Mark 14:38

Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Luke 6:45

The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil, for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.

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—

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.