11 translations · Hebrew
Proverbs 3:1
My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 3:1 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
- KJV King James Version
- My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
- ASV American Standard Version
- My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- My son! Do not forget my law, || And let your heart keep my commands,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- My son, don't forget my instructions. Always keep my commands in mind.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,
- DBY Darby Translation
- My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments;
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- My son, forget not my law; but let thy heart keep my commandments;
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ֭נִי | bə·nî | My son | H1121 בֵּן son: child |
| תּוֹרָתִ֣י | tō·w·rā·ṯî | my teaching | H8451 תּוֹרָה instruction |
| אַל־ | ’al- | do not | H408 אַל not |
| תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח | tiš·kāḥ | forget | H7911 שָׁכַח to forget |
| וּ֝מִצְוֺתַ֗י | ū·miṣ·wō·ṯay | my commandments | H4687 מִצְוָה commandment |
| יִצֹּ֥ר | yiṣ·ṣōr | keep | H5341 נָצַר to watch |
| לִבֶּֽךָ׃ | lib·be·ḵā | but let your heart | H3820 לֵב heart |
Related verses
- John 14:21–24
One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. …
- Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
- Deuteronomy 6:6–9
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. …
- Psalm 119:16
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
- Proverbs 1:8
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
- Psalm 119:34
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
- Psalm 119:93
I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
- Deuteronomy 8:1
You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
- Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Psalm 119:11
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
1 My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
2 for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.
3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Read all of Proverbs 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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