Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
In Context
25Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
27For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.
Proverbs 4:23With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
Hosea 14:9Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.
Luke 14:26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:20-29
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. 25… Read the whole commentary →