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Proverbs 2:1
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Proverbs 2:1
1MY son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
1¶ My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my words, and hide my commaundements with thee;
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 2:1
To will, choose, intend, or be disposed to; as an auxiliary, indicates future action.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To take, accept, admit, welcome, or obtain what is given or presented.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To conceal or keep from sight or knowledge; to lie concealed. As a noun, an animal skin.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
commandments
Authoritative commands, laws, or precepts; especially commands given by God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study1MY son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
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Open the full verse study3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
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Open the full verse study1HEAR, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
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Open the full verse study6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
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Open the full verse study47And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
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Open the full verse study1MY son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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Open the full verse study20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
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Open the full verse study21Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
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Open the full verse study9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
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Open the full verse study12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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Open the full verse study19But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
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Open the full verse study10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
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Open the full verse study44¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
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Open the full verse study15This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
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Open the full verse study51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
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Open the full verse study44Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
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