Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
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Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
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Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Proverbs 4:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 3:21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
- Proverbs 3:3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 7:1-2 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
- Psalms 40:8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
- Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes;…
Pro 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Ver. 21. Let them not depart.] {See Trapp on "Pro 3:21"}
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In the midst of thy heart.] As in a safe repository, a ready repertory.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Heartily love them, and stedfastly retain them,
Heartily love them, and stedfastly retain them,
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Let them not depart from thine eyes,.... Commit them…
Let them not depart from thine eyes,.... Commit them to writing, frequently read them over; let them be always in sight, as a rule and directory to steer the course of life by. Some understand this of the wicked, as if the sense was, let not them, the wicked, cause them to depart from thine eyes; nor thee to neglect them, by their bad advice, solicitations to sin, and ill examples; See Gill on Pro 3:21;
keep them in the midst of thine heart; lay them up there, and ponder them; often meditate upon them, and do not forget them; show the most affectionate regard unto them, and look upon them as a most inestimable treasure, for which no place is so fit a repository as the heart.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. Keep them in the midst of thine…
Verse 21. Keep them in the midst of thine heart.] Let them be wrapped up in the very centre of thy affections; that they may give spring and energy to every desire, word, and wish.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. In the midst of thine heart — In…
21. In the midst of thine heart — In the very centre of thy affections or mind.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let them not depart from thine eyes; i.e. keep…
Let them not depart from thine eyes; i.e. keep them constantly in view as the guide of the whole conduct. These words are a repetition of Pro_3:21, just as the latter part of the verse reproduces the thought of Pro_2:1. Depart. The hiph. yallizu is here used instead of the kal yaluzu of Pro_3:21, but has the same force. In the midst of thine heart; i.e. in its inmost recesses; there the words and sayings are to be guarded as a man guards a treasure stowed away in the inmost chambers of a house. The expression implies cherishing them with an internal affection. The terms of the verse may be illustrated by Deu_6:6, Deu_6:8, "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontiers between thine eyes."
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