Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
In Context
22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
24Put away from you a perverse mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
Cross References
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Proverbs 4:7Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding.
Proverbs 13:3He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 22:5Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs 28:26He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:21-27
Parental Instructions. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and… Read the whole commentary →