Proverbs 6:22
If you follow our advice, it will be as though what we have taught you [PRS] will lead you, wherever you go. When you sleep, they will protect you. And when you wake up in the morning, they will teach/instruct you.
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Psalms 3:6There may be thousands of enemy soldiers who surround me, but I am not afraid.
Psalms 43:3Shine your light on me and speak your truth to me; and let them guide me, and take me back to Zion, your sacred hill at Jerusalem, and to your temple, where you live.
Psalms 119:11I have ◄memorized/stored in my mind► many of ◄your words/what you have promised► in order that I will not sin against you.
Psalms 119:54While I have been living here for a short time on the earth, I have written songs about ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►.
Psalms 119:148All during the night I am awake, and I ◄meditate on/think about► what you have ◄promised/said that you would do►.
Proverbs 3:23If you do what is right and wise, you will be able to walk safely, and you will not ◄stumble/do things that are wrong► [MET].
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35
Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →