Proverbs 7:1
My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
Cross References
Job 22:22Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
Proverbs 2:1My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
Proverbs 5:5Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.
Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay vp knowledge: but ye mouth of the foole is a present destruction.
Luke 11:28But hee saide, Yea, rather blessed are they that heare the woorde of God, and keepe it.
John 15:20Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master. If they haue persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they haue kept my worde, they will also keepe 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 →