That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
The 1611 reading
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keepe knowledge.
KJV dictionary & concordance
To guard, watch, protect, preserve, secure, retain, possess, hold, maintain, support, tend, manage, observe, obey, fulfil, celebrate, continue in, refrain from, or remain faithful to a person, place, trust, command, promise, way, time, or thing.
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First occurrence: Genesis 2:15
Complete exact-word concordance
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keepe knowledge.
¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
¶ My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
1611 marginal noteChap.1.8.
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
When thou goest, it shall leade thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keepe thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talke with thee.
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
To keepe thee from the euill woman, from the flatterie of the tongue of a strange woman.
1611 marginal noteOr, of the strange tongue.
1611 marginal noteCha.2.16. and 5.3. and 7.5.
MY son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
¶ My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.
keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.
1611 marginal noteDeut.6.8. & 11.18. chap.3.3.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
1611 marginal noteChap.5.3.
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Nowe therefore hearken vnto me, O yee children: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
1611 marginal notePsal.119.1, 2. and 128.1. luc.11.28.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Thornes and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doeth keepe his soule, shalbe farre from them.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee; they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes.
1611 marginal noteHeb. in thy belly.
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