Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Berean Standard Bible
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 treasure my commandments within you.
3Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
Psalms 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
Proverbs 4:13Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
Jeremiah 38:20“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
John 12:49I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
John 15:14You are My friends if you do what 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 →