Proverbs 7:1
Beni (my son), be shomer over my words, 1 and treasure up my mitzvot with thee. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Be shomer over my mitzvot, and live, 1 and over my torah as the apple of thine eye. 1
Cross References
Job 22:22Receive, now, torah from His mouth, 1 and lay up His words in thine lev. 1
Proverbs 2:1Beni (my son), if thou wilt receive my words, 1 and treasure my mitzvot with thee; 1
Proverbs 5:5Her raglayim go down to mavet; 1 her steps lead to Sheol. 1
Proverbs 10:14Chachamim treasure up da'as (knowledge); 1 but the peh (mouth) of the foolish is near destruction. 1
Luke 11:28But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Aderaba (to the contrary); ashrey are the ones hearing the dvar Hashem and being shomer mitzvot! + 11:28 T.N. Notice refusal here of Moshiach to allow his Em to be given Goyishe veneration.
John 15:20Put in zikaron (remembrance) the dvar which I told you, An eved is not gadol (greater) than his Adon. If they brought redifah (persecution) on me, they will also bring redifah on you. If over my dvar they were shomer, also over yours they will be shomer.
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 →