Cross references

Proverbs 7:2

Keep my commandments and live;

guard my teachings as the apple

of your eye.

Proverbs 7:2 BSB
  1. a Literally the pupil

Proverbs 7:2 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 17:8 (9 votes) and Leviticus 18:5 (7 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Leviticus 18 to Revelation 22.

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Which verses does Proverbs 7:2 point to?

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  1. Psalm 17:89 votes

    Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

  2. Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

  3. he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.

  4. By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

  5. John 14:216 votes

    Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

  6. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments. …

  7. 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.

  8. Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.

  9. Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

  10. I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it. And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

  11. John 15:145 votes

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