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Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands;

Obedience and God's wordWisdom, understanding and instruction

Key words: tôrâ miṣvâ lēḇ nāṣar

Original words

EnglishOriginal wordRoot#
My sonbᵊnî בְּנִיbēn8
forgettiškāḥ תִּשְׁכָּחšāḵaḥ2
not'al אַל'al26
my lawtôrāṯî תּוֹרָתִיtôrâ3
butûmiṣôṯay וּמִצְוֺתַיmiṣvâ3
letyiṣṣōr יִצֹּרnāṣar6
thine heartlibeḵā לִבֶּךָlēḇ5
keepyiṣṣōr יִצֹּרnāṣar6
my commandmentsûmiṣôṯay וּמִצְוֺתַיmiṣvâ3

Memory passages these point to

J-69 Proverbs 1:5-23S-70 Proverbs 1:5-23

Cross-references 19

Passages are shown in the NKJV.

forget not my law 6
  • Proverbs 1:8 J-69 Proverbs 1:5-23S-70 Proverbs 1:5-23

    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • Proverbs 4:5 Proverbs 4:5

    5Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

  • Proverbs 31:5

    5Lest they drink and forget the law, And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

  • Deuteronomy 4:23

    23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

  • Psalms 119:93, 153, 176

    93I will never forget Your precepts, For by them You have given me life.
    153Consider my affliction and deliver me, For I do not forget Your law.
    176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.

  • Hosea 4:6

    6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

let thine heart keep my commandments 8
  • Deuteronomy 4:9

    9Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren,

  • Deuteronomy 6:6-9

    6"And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

  • Deuteronomy 8:1

    1"Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers.

  • Deuteronomy 30:16-20

    16in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 17But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, 18I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. 19I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

  • Psalms 119:11, 16, 34, 47-48

    11Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.
    16I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
    34Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
    47And I will delight myself in Your commandments, Which I love. 48My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments, Which I love, And I will meditate on Your statutes.

  • Isaiah 51:17

    17Awake, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk at the hand of the LORD The cup of His fury; You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, And drained it out.

  • Jeremiah 31:33

    33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

  • John 14:21-24

    21He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." 22Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" 23Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

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