Proverbs 3:21 {22}
Good News Translation
My child, hold on to your wisdom and insight. Never let them get away from you.

New Revised Standard Version
My child, do not let these escape from your sight: keep sound wisdom and prudence,

Contemporary English Version
My child, use common sense and sound judgment! Always keep them in mind.

New American Bible
My son, do not let these slip from your sight: hold to deliberation and planning;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.

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Proverbs 3:1-3 For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace. . . .

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: . . .

Joshua 1:8 Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it.

John 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.

John 15:6,7 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth. . . .

Hebrews 2:1-3 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip. . . .

1 John 2:24,27 As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father. . . .

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Proverbs 2:7 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.

Deuteronomy 32:46,47 And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law: . . .

Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
20My son, let not these things depart from thy eyes: keep the law and counsel: 21And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.22Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble:…
Cross References
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip.

Proverbs 1:4
A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.

Proverbs 4:21
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.

Proverbs 5:2
For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.

Proverbs 8:14
By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.

Proverbs 18:1
He that hath a mind to depart from a friend, seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach.

Proverbs 3:20
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