Proverbs 2:1

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Proverbs 2:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

2 if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

3 if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

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Proverbs 1:3

and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.

Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

John 12:47

As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

John 12:48

There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

1 Timothy 1:15

This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

Proverbs 4:20

My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 4:21

Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.

Proverbs 6:21

Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

Deuteronomy 6:6

These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

Deuteronomy 6:7

And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 6:8

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Deuteronomy 6:9

Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Psalms 119:9

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

Psalms 119:10

With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

Psalms 119:11

I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

Matthew 13:44

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

Luke 2:19

But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.

Luke 2:51

Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Luke 9:44

“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”