Proverbs 5:7
So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
BSB
ASV
Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.
KJV
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Hear me - O ye children - בנים banim, sons, young men in general: for these are the most likely to be deceived and led astray.
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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Proverbs 4:1Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
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We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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Proverbs 4:21Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
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My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment.
Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
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Hebrews 12:25See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if…
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The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you…