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Prov. 3:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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My son, forget not my law; but let thine heartb keep my commandments:

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Isa. 51:7• ⁷Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings. (Isa. 51:7)

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Jer. 31:33• ³³This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith Jehovah, 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. (Jer. 31:33)

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1-12: Sundry exhortations.

13-26: The gain of wisdom.

27-32: Exhortation to beneficence, etc.

33-35: The different state of the wicked and upright.

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Prov. 1:8• ⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father,{HR}And forsake not the law of thy mother; (Prov. 1:8)

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Prov. 4:5• ⁵Get wisdom, get understanding;{HR}Forget not neither decline from the words of my mouth. (Prov. 4:5)

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Prov. 31:5• ⁵—{i}Lest they drink and forget the law,{HR}And pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.{/i} (Prov. 31:5)

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Deut. 4:23• ²³{i}Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.{/i} (Deut. 4:23)

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Psa. 119:93,153,176• ⁹³Never will I forget thy precepts,{HR}For by them thou hast quickened me.
¹⁵³See mine affliction and deliver me;{HR}For thy law I do not forget.
¹⁷⁶I have wandered like a lost sheep:{HR}Seek thy servant,{HR}For thy commandments I do not forget. (Psa. 119:93,153,176)

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Hos. 4:6• ⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I too will forget thy children. (Hos. 4:6)

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Deut. 4:9• 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. 4:9)

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Deut. 6:6‑9• ⁶And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart.
⁷And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, {i}and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.{/i}
⁸{i}And thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.{/i}
⁹{i}And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.{/i} (Deut. 6:6‑9)

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Deut. 8:1• ¹{i}Every commandment which I command thee this day shall ye take heed to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and enter in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers.{/i} (Deut. 8:1)

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Deut. 30:16‑20• ¹⁶{i}in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.{/i}
¹⁷{i}But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and thou shalt bow down to other gods and serve them;{/i}
¹⁸{i}I denounce unto you this day that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whereunto thou passest over the Jordan to possess it.{/i}
¹⁹{i}I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you: life and death have I set before you, blessing and cursing: choose then life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed,{/i}
²⁰{i}in loving Jehovah thy God, in hearkening to his voice, and in cleaving to him—for this is thy life and the length of thy days—that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.{/i} (Deut. 30:16‑20)

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Psa. 119:11,16,34,47‑48• ¹¹In my heart have I laid up thy saying,{HR}That I might not sin against thee.
¹⁶In thy statutes I will delight myself;{HR}I will not forget thy word.
³⁴Make me understand, and I will observe thy law{HR}And will keep [it] with a whole heart.
⁴⁷And I will delight myself in thy commandments{HR}Which I have loved,
⁴⁸And I will lift up my hands to thy commandments which I loved,{HR}And I will meditate in thy statutes. (Psa. 119:11,16,34,47‑48)

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Isa. 51:17• ¹⁷Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury; thou hast drunk — hast drained out the bowl of the cup of staggering. (Isa. 51:17)

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Jer. 31:33• ³³This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith Jehovah, 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. (Jer. 31:33)

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John 14:21‑24• ²¹He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; but he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.
²²Judas, not the Iscariot, saith to him, Lord, [and] how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world?
²³Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
²⁴He that loveth me not keepeth not my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's that sent me. (John 14:21‑24)

• Fourth Discourse 3:1 — Wise in Our Own Eyes (“Proverbs” by N. Simon)

• “Let thy heart keep my commandments,” is a much-needed word. This is far more than submission to duty; it is loving devotion to the will of God. (“Proverbs Three” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments;

W. Kelly Translation

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My son, forget not my teaching,{HR}But let thy heart keep my commandments: