Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
BSB
ASV
My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
KJV
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
The harlot adulteress of an Eastern city is contrasted with the true feminine ideal of the Wisdom who is to be the “sister” and “kinswoman” Pro 7:4 of the young man as he goes on his way through life. See Prov. 8 in the introduction.
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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Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
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I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
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Revelation 1:3Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.
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But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of prophecy in this book, because the time is near.
And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.