Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and instruction a light; Yea, the rebukes of correction lead to life.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
24They shall guard thee from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the unchaste woman.
Cross References
Psalms 119:98Thou hast made me wiser than my enemies by thy precepts; For they are ever before me.
Psalms 141:5Let the righteous smite me,—it shall be a kindness; Let him reprove me, and it shall be oil for my head; Let him do it again, and my head shall not refuse it; But now I pray against their wickedness!
Proverbs 4:4He taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart hold fast my words; Keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 5:12And say, “How have I hated instruction! And how hath my heart despised reproof!
Proverbs 15:31The ear that hearkeneth to the reproof of life Shall dwell 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 →