Proverbs 4:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 walk in the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.

Proverbs 11:16

A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

Proverbs 13:3

He who guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; he who guards his way preserves his life.

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep far from them.

Proverbs 23:19

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

Proverbs 28:26

He who trusts in his own mind is a fool; but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Proverbs 3:21

My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion; let them not escape from your sight,

Proverbs 4:7

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

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?

Matthew 15:18

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

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

Mark 14:38

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Luke 6:45

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Deuteronomy 4:9

“Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart 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 fail to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” spring up and cause trouble, and by it the many become defiled;