Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
In Context
1My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,
3Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Proverbs 4:13Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.
Jeremiah 38:20But Jeremias answered: They shall not deliver thee: hearken, I beseech thee, to the word of the Lord, which I speak to thee, and it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.
John 12:49For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 15:14You are my friends, if you do the things that I command 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 →