Proverbs 23:26
My son, heed what I say to you, and allow what I do to be an example for you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
In Context
25Do what will cause your father to be glad and enable your mother also to be happy.
27Prostitutes and immoral women [DOU] are like [MET] a deep pit or a well that you may fall into.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5You must love him with all your inner being and with all that you feel and with all that you do.
Psalms 119:2Yahweh is pleased with those who ◄obey his requirements/do what he has instructed them to do►, those who request him with their entire inner beings to help them to do that.
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget what I have taught you. Keep my commands in your inner being,
Proverbs 4:23It is very important that you be careful about what you think, because what you think controls [MET] the things that you do.
Hosea 14:9Those who are wise will understand the things about which I have written. Those who think well will pay careful attention to them. The things that Yahweh wants us to do [MET] are right; righteous people will conduct their lives adhering to them. But those who rebel against Yahweh will be ruined.
Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me who loves his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters more than [HYP] he loves me, he cannot be my disciple. He must even love me more than he loves his own life!
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:20-29
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. 25… Read the whole commentary →