Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
Cross References
Job 22:22Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
Proverbs 10:14Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.
Luke 11:28But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
John 15:20Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.
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 →