Proverbs 7:1
My son, heed my advice, and guard my instructions as you would [MET] guard a treasure.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
Cross References
Job 22:22Allow him to teach you, and keep thinking about what he has told you.
Proverbs 2:1My son, listen to what I say, and consider my instructions to be as valuable as [MET] a treasure.
Proverbs 5:5If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are. Her steps will lead you straight to the grave.
Proverbs 10:14Wise people continue to learn all that they can, but when foolish people speak, they soon cause trouble.
Luke 11:28But he replied, “God is much more pleased with those who hear his message and obey it!”
John 15:20Remember these words that I told you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ That means that you, who are like my servants, cannot expect people to treat you better than they treat me. So, since they have ◄persecuted me/caused me to suffer►, they will ◄persecute you/cause you to suffer► also. If they had paid attention to the things I taught them, they would pay attention to what you teach them.
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 →