Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Cross References
Job 22:22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those 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 lord.’ 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 →