Proverbs 4:23
Above every charge keep your heart, || For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
In Context
22For they [are] life to those finding them, || And healing to all their flesh.
24Turn aside a contrary mouth from you, || And put perverse lips far from you,
Cross References
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart, || Try me, and know my thoughts,
Proverbs 4:7The first thing [is] wisdom—get wisdom, || And with all your getting get understanding.
Proverbs 13:3Whoever is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, || Whoever is opening wide his lips—ruin to him!
Proverbs 22:5Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the perverse, || Whoever is keeping his soul is far from them.
Proverbs 28:26Whoever is trusting in his heart is a fool, || And whoever is walking in wisdom is delivered.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart [is] deceitful above all things, || And it [is] incurable—who knows it?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:21-27
Parental Instructions. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and… Read the whole commentary →