Proverbs 5:1
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
In Context
2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:1Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 22:17Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
Mark 4:23If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Revelation 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
Revelation 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows but he who receives it.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:1
The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of ch. ii . To write the same things, in other words, ought not to be grievous, for it is safe, Phil. iii. 1 . Here is, I. An exhortation to get acquaintance with and submit to the laws of wisdom in general, ver. 2 . II. A particular caution against the sin of whoredom, ver. 3-14 . III. Remedies prescribed against that sin. 1. Conjugal love, ver. 15-20 . 2. A regard to God's omniscience, ver. 21 . 3. A dread of the miserable end of wicked people, ver. 22, 23 .… Read the whole commentary →