Proverbs 3:1 {2}
Good News Translation
My child, don't forget what I teach you. Always remember what I tell you to do.

New Revised Standard Version
My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

Contemporary English Version
My child, remember my teachings and instructions and obey them completely.

New American Bible
My son, do not forget my teaching, take to heart my commands;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.

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Proverbs 1:8 That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.

Proverbs 4:5 Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.

Proverbs 31:5 And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

Deuteronomy 4:23 Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:

Psalm 119:93,153,176 Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast given me life. . . .

Hosea 4:6 My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

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Deuteronomy 4:9 Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: . . .

Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great care to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may possess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers.

Deuteronomy 30:16-20 That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess. . . .

Psalm 119:11,16,34,47,48 Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee. . . .

Isaiah 51:17 Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the bottom of the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to the dregs.

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

John 14:21-24 He 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. . . .

Context
Trust in the LORD
1For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.2Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.…
Cross References
Exodus 20:6
And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 30:16
That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

Psalm 91:16
I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.

Psalm 119:61
The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Psalm 119:153
See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy law.

Proverbs 2:1
That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.

Proverbs 4:2
For I also was my father's son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother:

Proverbs 4:5
Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.

Proverbs 16:31
Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.

Proverbs 2:22
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