Proverbs 4:21 {22}
Good News Translation
Never let them get away from you. Remember them and keep them in your heart.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not let them escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

Contemporary English Version
Don't forget a single word, but think about it all.

New American Bible
Let them not slip from your sight, keep them within your heart;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.

depart

Proverbs 3:3,21 And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men. . . .

in the

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

Psalm 40:8 That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

Context
A Father's Instruction
20Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart: 21For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.22With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.…
Cross References
Proverbs 3:21
And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.

Proverbs 7:1
Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:

Proverbs 7:2
Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.

Proverbs 4:20
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