Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of yours eye.
Cross References
Job 22:22Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in yours heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Luke 11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word (o. logos) of God, and keep it.
John 15:20Remember the word (o. logos) that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, (o. logos) they will keep yours also.
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 →