Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Cross References
Job 22:22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on Sheol,
Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction.
Luke 11:28But he said, Blessed rather, are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.
John 15:20Remember the word that I said to you, A bondman is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:1
The scope of this chapter is, as of several before, to warn young men against the lusts of the flesh. Solomon remembered of what ill consequence it was to his father, perhaps found himself, and perceived his son, addicted to it, or at least had observed how many hopeful young men among his subjects had been ruined by those lusts; and therefore he thought he could never say enough to dissuade men from them, that "every one may possess his vessel in sanctification and honour, and not in the lusts of uncleanness." In… Read the whole commentary →