Proverbs 7:1
My son, guard my words and conceal my precepts within you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
Cross References
Job 22:22Accept the law from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,
Proverbs 5:5Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.
Proverbs 10:14The wise store away knowledge. But the mouth of the foolish is a neighbor to confusion.
Luke 11:28Then he said, “Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”
John 15:20Remember my saying that I told you: The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
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 →