Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, And treasure up my commandments with thee!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my commandments and live! Yea, my teaching, as the apple of thine eye!
Cross References
Job 22:22Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.
Proverbs 2:1Oh, my son, that thou wouldst receive my words, And treasure up my precepts within thee;
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; Her steps lay hold of the under-world.
Proverbs 10:14Wise men treasure up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is destruction close at hand.
Luke 11:28But he said, Blessed rather are they that hear the word of God and keep it.
John 15:20Remember what I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my words, they will keep yours also.
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 →