Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words 1 and store up my commands within yourself. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my commands and live 1 and keep my instruction as the apple of your eye. 1
Cross References
Job 22:22Receive, I beg you, instruction from his mouth; 1 store up his words in your heart. 1
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you receive my words 1 and treasure up my commandments with you, 1
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; 1 her steps go all the way to Sheol. 1
Proverbs 10:14Wise men store up knowledge, 1 but the mouth of a fool brings destruction near. 1
Luke 11:28But he said, “Rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.”
John 15:20Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
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 →