Proverbs 6:23

For the command [is] a lamp, || And the Law a light, || And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

In Context

22In your going up and down, it leads you, || In your lying down, it watches over you, || And you have awoken—it talks [with] you.

24To preserve you from an evil woman, || From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:17You do not hate your brother in your heart; you certainly reprove your fellow, and do not permit sin on him.

Psalms 119:98Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, || For it [is] before me for all time.

Psalms 141:5The righteous beat me [in] kindness. And reprove me, || My head does not disallow oil of the head, || For my prayer [is] still about their distress.

Proverbs 4:4And he directs me, and he says to me: “Let your heart retain my words, || Keep my commands, and live.

Proverbs 5:12And have said, “How I have hated instruction, || And my heart has despised reproof,

Proverbs 15:31An ear that is hearing the reproof of life || Lodges among the wise.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35

Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →

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