Proverbs 4:13
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Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
In other translations
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
- Hebrews 2:1Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
- Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
- Deuteronomy 32:47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:21Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
- Acts 11:23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
- Acts 2:42And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
- John 6:68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- Song of Solomon 3:4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
- Revelation 12:11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
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