Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
BSB
ASV
Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
KJV
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
LETTER 55:3 (444)
It is necessary that, before other things, you have a sound mind within yourselves and that you be mindful of holy Scripture addressing you and saying, "Let your eyes look straight ahead." … To slip away from the rightness of holy doctrines would be nothing else except to sleep in death. We depart from this rightness when we do not follow the divinely inspired Scriptures.
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
Psalms 119:37Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
leads to
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
Through
Matthew 6:22The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
leads to
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
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Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
leads to
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
