Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
BSB
ASV
Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
KJV
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
As the apple of thine eye - As the pupil of the eye, which is of such essential necessity to sight, and so easily injured.
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 4:4he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.
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My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
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He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Let me dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
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Leviticus 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
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The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”