Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
Cross References
Job 22:22Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion.
Luke 11:28But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.
John 15:20Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: 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 →