Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
In Context
22For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
24Put away from thee a wayward mouth, and put perverse lips far from thee.
Cross References
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts,
Proverbs 4:7Wisdom [is] the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverbs 13:3He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 22:5Thorns [and] snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs 28:26He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:21-27
Parental Instructions. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and… Read the whole commentary →