Proverbs 3:1
My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
In Context
2For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:9Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;
Deuteronomy 5:16Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 6:6Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;
Deuteronomy 30:16In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.
Psalms 119:16I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
Psalms 119:47And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 3:1
This chapter is one of the most excellent in all this book, both for argument to persuade us to be religious and for directions therein. I. We must be constant to our duty because that is the way to be happy, ver. 1-4 . II. We must live a life of dependence upon God because that is the way to be safe, ver. 5 . III. We must keep up the fear of God because that is the way to be healthful, ver. 7, 8 . IV. We must serve God with our estates because that is the way to be rich, ver. 9, 10 . V. We must hear afflictions… Read the whole commentary →