Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commands, and live, || And my law as the pupil of your eye.
Literal Standard Version
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 sayings, || And lay up my commands with you.
3Bind them on your fingers, || Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10He finds him in a land—a desert, || And in a void—a howling wilderness, || He turns him around—He causes him to understand—He keeps him as the apple of His eye.
Psalms 119:144The righteousness of Your testimonies || [Is] to cause me to understand, and I live!
Proverbs 4:13Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, || Keep her, for she [is] your life.
Jeremiah 38:20And Jeremiah says, “They do not give you up; please listen to the voice of YHWH, to that which I am speaking to you, and it is well for you, and your soul lives.
John 12:49because I did not speak from Myself, but the Father who sent Me, He gave Me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,
John 15:14you are My friends if you may do whatever 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 →