Proverbs 6:22
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
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In Context
21Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
23For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Cross References
Psalms 3:6I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.
Psalms 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.
Psalms 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Psalms 119:54Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
Psalms 119:148My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
Proverbs 3:23Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35
Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →