Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
In Context
25Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her who bore thee rejoice.
27For a harlot is a deep ditch, and an interloping woman is a narrow pit.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5And thou shall love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Psalms 119:2Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart.
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.
Proverbs 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
Hosea 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.
Luke 14:26If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:20-29
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. 25… Read the whole commentary →