Proverbs 4:23
Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
In Context
22For they are life to those who find them and health to all that is flesh.
24Remove from yourself a corrupt mouth, and let detracting lips be far from you.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:7The beginning of wisdom is to obtain wisdom, and, with all that you possess, to acquire prudence.
Proverbs 13:3Whoever guards his mouth guards his soul. But whoever gives no consideration to his speech shall experience misfortunes.
Proverbs 22:5Weapons and swords are on the way of the perverse. But he who guards his own soul withdraws far from them.
Proverbs 28:26Whoever trusts in his own heart is a fool. But whoever treads wisely, the same shall be saved.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?
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 →