Your Agreement is good forever.\par Help me understand it so I can live.\par
Proverbs 7:2 - Easy To Read Version Obey my commands and you will have life. Make my teaching the most important thing in your life. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Keep my commandments, and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Keep my commandments and live, and keep my law and teaching as the apple (the pupil) of your eye. American Standard Version (1901) Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. Common English Bible Keep my commands and live, and my instruction like the pupil of your eye. Catholic Public Domain Version Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye: |
Your Agreement is good forever.\par Help me understand it so I can live.\par
Protect me like the pupil {\cf2\super [90]} of your eye.\par Hide me in the shadow of your wings.\par
Always remember these lessons. Don’t forget these lessons. They are your life!
And my father taught me these things. He said to me, “Remember the things I say. Obey my commands and you will live.
Listen closely to the things I say.\par Listen to me so your souls will live.\par Come to me and I will make an agreement\par with you that will continue forever.\par It will be like the agreement\par that I made with David.\par I promised David that I would love him\par and be loyal to him forever.\par And you can trust that agreement.\par
But Jeremiah answered, “The soldiers will not give you to those men of Judah. King Zedekiah, obey the Lord by doing what I tell you. Then things will go well for you, and your life will be saved.
So you must obey my laws and rules. If a person obeys my laws and rules, he will live! I am the Lord!
Why? Because hurting you\par is like hurting the pupil of God’s eye.\par
If a person knows my commands and obeys those commands, then that person truly loves me. And my Father will love the person that loves me. And I will love that person. I will show myself to him.”
“The Lord found Jacob (Israel) in a desert land, an empty, windy land. The Lord surrounded Jacob to watch over him. He protected him, like the pupil of his eye.
“Those people who washed their robes {\cf2\super [174]} will be blessed. They will have the right to \{eat the food from\} the tree of life. They can go through the gates into the city.