Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
In Context
25Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
27For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Psalms 119:2Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.
Proverbs 3:1My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
Proverbs 4:23And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
Hosea 14:9\14:8\As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
Luke 14:26And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not 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 →