Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
In Context
25Let your father and your mother rejoice over you, and let her that bore you be glad.
27For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and all your strength.
Psalms 119:2Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 1
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my laws; but let your heart keep my words:
Proverbs 4:23Keep your heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life.
Hosea 14:9What has he to do any more with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him: I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is your fruit found.
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 →