Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commands and live 1 and keep my instruction as the apple of your eye. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
In Context
1My son, keep my words 1 and store up my commands within yourself. 1
3Tie them on your fingers; 1 write them on the tablet of your heart. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, 1 and in the barren and howling wilderness; 1 he shielded him and cared for him, 1 he guarded him as the apple of his eye. 1
Psalms 119:144Your covenant decrees are righteous forever; 1 give me understanding that I may live. QOPH 1
Proverbs 4:13Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; 1 guard it, for it is your life. 1
Jeremiah 38:20Jeremiah said, “They will not give you over to them. Obey the message from Yahweh that I am telling you, so that things will go well for you, and so that you will live.
John 12:49For I did not speak for myself, but it is the Father who sent me, who has given me the command about what to say and what to speak.
John 15:14You are my friends if you do the things that I command 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 →