Proverbs 7:4
Say unto wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
In Context
3Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of yours heart.
5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.
Cross References
Job 17:14I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
Proverbs 4:6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.
Matthew 12:49And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
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 →