Proverbs 7:1
My son! Keep my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my commands, and live, || And my law as the pupil of your eye.
Cross References
Job 22:22Please receive a law from His mouth, || And set His sayings in your heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you,
Proverbs 5:5Her feet are going down to death, || Her steps take hold of Sheol.
Proverbs 10:14The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool [is] near ruin.
Luke 11:28And He said, “Indeed, rather, blessed those hearing the word of God, and keeping [it]!”
John 15:20Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his lord; if they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will also keep yours;
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 →