Proverbs 7:24
Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
In Context
25Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths.
Cross References
Psalms 34:12What man is he who desires life, and loves [many] days, that he may see good?
Proverbs 5:7Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 13:1A wise son [hears] his father's instruction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.
Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →