Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
Darby Translation
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 unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
24Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.
Cross References
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
Proverbs 4:7The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.
Proverbs 13:3He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips.
Proverbs 22:5Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.
Proverbs 28:26He that confideth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; 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 →