Proverbs 7:2
Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
In Context
1My son, guard my words and conceal my precepts within you.
3Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10He discovered him in a desert land, in a place of horror and a vast wilderness. He led him around and taught him, and he guarded him like the pupil of his eye,
Proverbs 4:13Take hold of discipline. Do not dismiss it. Guard it, for it is your life.
Jeremiah 38:20But Jeremiah responded: “They will not deliver you. Listen, I ask you, to the voice of the Lord, which I am speaking to you, and it will be well with you, and your soul will live.
John 12:49For I am not speaking from myself, but from the Father who sent me. He gave a commandment to me as to what I should say and how I should speak.
John 15:14You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.
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 →