Proverbs 6:23

These commands and what we teach you will be like a lamp to light your path [MET]. When we rebuke you and correct/punish you, we will be showing you the road to having a good life.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

In Context

22If 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.

24Heeding [PRS] these commands and things that we have taught you will enable you to keep away from immoral women and from listening to the enticing words of an adulterous woman.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:17‘Do not hate anyone. Instead, honestly rebuke those who ought to be rebuked, in order that you also will not be guilty.

Psalms 119:98Because I know ◄your commands/what you have commanded►, and because I think about them all the time, I have become wiser than my enemies.

Psalms 141:5It is all right if righteous people strike/hit me or rebuke me because they are trying to act kindly toward me to teach me to do what is right, but I do not want wicked people to honor me by anointing my head with olive oil; I am always praying that you will punish them because of the wicked deeds that they do.

Proverbs 4:4my father told me, “Remember my words; if you obey my commandments, you will live a long time.

Proverbs 5:12Then you will say, “I hated it when people tried to correct me. I despised people when they reproved/rebuked me.

Proverbs 15:31If people pay attention when people correct/warn them, they will become wise.

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 →

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