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 14:21–24One 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.”
• Prov 4:5Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
• Deut 6:6–9These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
• Ps 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
• Prov 1:8My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
• Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
• Ps 119:93I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
• Jer 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 in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Deut 8:1You 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.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
• Ps 119:47–48I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
• Ps 119:153Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
• Deut 4:9Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
• Deut 30:16–20For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
• Deut 4:23Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
• Prov 31:5lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
• Isa 51:17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

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