Proverbs 7:2
Obey my commands, and as a result you will live a good life. Consider the things that I teach you to be very precious; guard them, just like you protect your eyes.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
In Context
1My son, heed my advice, and guard my instructions as you would [MET] guard a treasure.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10“He saw our ancestors when they were in a desert, wandering in a land ◄that was desolate/where no people lived►. He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes. [SIM, IDM]
Psalms 119:144◄Your requirements are/All the things that you have instructed us to do are► always fair; help me to understand them in order that I may continue to live.
Proverbs 4:13Hold fast to the things I have taught you to do, and do not let them go. Guard them, because they will be the source of a good life.
Jeremiah 38:20I replied, “If you obey Yahweh by doing what I tell you to do, they will not hand you over to our people. Things will go well for you, and you will remain alive.
John 12:49I have not said things from my own authority. Instead, my Father, the one who sent me, instructed me what to say and how I should say it.
John 15:14You show that you are my friends if you keep doing what I have commanded 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 →