Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live! Yea, my teaching, as the apple of thine eye!
Noyes Bible
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 words, And treasure up my commandments with thee!
3Bind them upon thy fingers, Write them upon the tablet of thy heart!
Cross References
Psalms 119:144The justice of thine ordinances is everlasting; Give me understanding, and I shall live!
Proverbs 4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go; Keep her, for she is thy life.
Jeremiah 38:20And Jeremiah said, “Thou shalt not be delivered up to them. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of Jehovah in what I speak to thee; so shall it be well with thee, and thou shalt live.
John 12:49Because I have not spoken from myself; but the Father who sent me hath himself committed to me what I should say, and what I should speak;
John 15:14Ye are my friends, if ye do what 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 →