Proverbs 7:2
Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
In Context
1My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
3Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
Psalms 119:144The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.
Proverbs 4:13Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.
Jeremiah 38:20But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given it to you, and it will be well for you, and you will keep your life.
John 12:49For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it.
John 15:14You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:2-6
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.… Read the whole commentary →