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Don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs
Chapter III
1 various exhortations, 13 The gain of wisdom, 27 Exhortation to goodness, 33 the different state of the wicked and upright
Deu 30:16My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Deu 6:8;Jer 17:13 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
1 Sam 2:26;Luk 2:52;Act 2:474 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Jer 9:235 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
1 Chr 28:9;Phi 4:6;Jer 10:236 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Rom 12:167 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Mal 3:10;Exo 23:199 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Deu 28:810 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Job 5:17;Heb 12:511 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
Deu 8:512 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Pro 8:19;Pro 8:11;Pro 2:414 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Mat 13:4415 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
1 Tim 4:816 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Mat 11:2917 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Gen 2:918 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Heb 1:2;Joh 1:3;Jer 10:1219 The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Deu 33:28;Job 36:2820 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
Lev 26:624 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
26 For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Gal 6:10;Rom 13:727 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Lev 19:13;Deu 24:1528 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
Rom 12:1830 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
32 For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
Psa 1:3;Mal 2:2;Zec 5:433 The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Psa 138:6;Mat 23:12;Jam 4:634 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Dan 12:235 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.