Proverbs 7:1
My son, observe my sayings, and my commandments must thou treasure up with thee.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Observe my commandments, and live: and my teaching as the apple of thy eyes.
Cross References
Job 22:22Do but accept instruction from his mouth, and lay up his saying in thy heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou wouldst but accept my words, and treasure up my commandments with thee;
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death, her steps take firm hold on the nether world:
Proverbs 10:14Wise men treasure up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is an approaching terror.
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 →