Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Cross References
Job 22:22Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
Proverbs 10:14The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.
Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
John 15:20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
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 →