Proverbs 3:1

Do not forget your teacher's instruction but keep his commands in your heart. It matters because wisdom must be remembered and obeyed inwardly, not just heard.

Cross-references · 19

• John 14:21–24He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• Prov 4:5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
• Deut 6:6–9And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
• Ps 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Prov 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
• Ps 119:93I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
• Jer 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Deut 8:1All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
• Ps 119:11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
• Ps 119:47–48And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
• Ps 119:153Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
• Deut 4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
• Deut 30:16–20In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
• Deut 4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
• Prov 31:5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
• Isa 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

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