Proverbs 4:22
For they are life to those who find them and health to all that is flesh.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
In Context
21Let them not recede from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
23Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:8Certainly, it shall be health to your navel, and refreshment to your bones.
Proverbs 4:10Listen, my son, and accept my words, so that years of life may be multiplied for you.
Jeremiah 33:6Behold, I will lead over them scars and health, and I will cure them. And I will reveal to them an invocation of peace and truth.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:21-27
Parental Instructions. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and… Read the whole commentary →