Proverbs 7:2
Obey my mitzvot ·instructions· and live! 2 Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. 1
One Unity Resource 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. 2 Lay up my mitzvot ·instructions· within you. 1
3Bind them on your fingers. 2 Write them on the tablet of your heart. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, 2 in the waste howling wilderness. 1 He surrounded him. 2 He cared for him. 2 He kept him as the apple of his eye. 1
Psalms 119:144צ ( Tzedek, Righteous) Your testimonies are righteous forever. 2 Give me understanding, that I may live. KUF ק 1
Proverbs 4:13Take firm hold of instruction. 2 Don’t let her go. 2 Keep her, for she is your life. 1
John 12:49+ 12:49 (49-50) MP: Messiah is everlasting with the authority of his father (Yahweh and ancestor David). Now the Hebrew idiom “Eternal Father” in the context of a ruler on David’s throne (Is 9:7). Eternal father could mean “The ruler with authority to pass on or deny access to eternal life”. (Is 9:6b) + 12:49 (49-50) MP: Messiah is the “Prince of Peace”. This role can be understood as “The chief leader of the people establishing a peaceful covenant relationship with God”. (Is 9:6b) + 12:49. MP: Messiah is called Israel. Messiah comes from the nation of Israel. Messiah is also called Israel as the patriarch Jacob was renamed Israel (Gen 32:28). Being called Israel as a relationship role, Messiah is the example of right relationship with Yahweh for all Israel to emulate. (Is 49:3b) + 12:49 (49-50) MP: The Messiah speaks with knowledge taught to him from God, not from men. (Is 50:4) + 12:49. MP: Messiah is God’s servant born in Bethlehem, “the future ruler of Israel”. (Mic 5:2) For I spoke not from myself, but haAbba ·the Father· who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. + 12:49. Quoted from Deut 18:18
John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I enjoin 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 →