Proverbs 4:21
Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
BSB
ASV
Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.
KJV
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
The reason why we must thus make much of the words of wisdom is because they will be both food and physic to us, like the tree of life, Rev. xxii. Those that seek and find them, find and keep them, shall find in them, (1.) Food: For they are life unto those that find them,
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.
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Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
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For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
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Proverbs 3:3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
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It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
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Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
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My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
