Proverbs 6:22
When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21Bind them continually upon yours heart, and tie them about your neck.
Cross References
Psalms 3:6I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Psalms 43:3O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto your holy hill, and to your tabernacles.
Psalms 119:11Your word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against you.
Psalms 119:54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Psalms 119:148Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.
Proverbs 3:23Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35
Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →