Proverbs 23:26
My son, offer me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 joyful, and may she who conceived you exult.
27For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Psalms 119:2O Lord, free my soul from lips of iniquity and from the deceitful tongue.
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart guard my precepts.
Proverbs 4:23Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.
Hosea 14:9Ephraim will say, “What are idols to me anymore?” I will listen to him, and I will set him straight like a healthy spruce tree. Your fruit has been found by me.
Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he is not able to 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 →