Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
BSB
ASV
My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:
KJV
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
My law - The law of God, which might be called his law, as the gospel is called Paul's gospel, 2Tim ii, 8, because delivered by him.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
leads to
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
Through
Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
leads to
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
Through
Psalms 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
leads to
Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
