Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live!Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
In Context
1My son, keep my words.Lay up my commandments within you.
3Bind them on your fingers.Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land,in the waste howling wilderness.He surrounded him.He cared for him.He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Psalms 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever.Give me understanding, that I may live.QOPH
Proverbs 4:13Take firm hold of instruction.Do not let her go.Keep her, for she is your life.
Jeremiah 38:20But Jeremiah said, "They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of the Lord, in that which I speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.
John 12:49For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:2-6
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.… Read the whole commentary →