Proverbs 7:24

Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

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Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

In Context

23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

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Cross References

Psalms 34:12Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

Proverbs 5:7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 13:1A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24

The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →

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