Proverbs 7:2

Keep thou my behests, and thou shalt live; and my law, as the apple of thine eye. (Keep thou my commands, and thou shalt live; and my instructions, or my teaching, as the apple of thine eyes.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

In Context

1My son, keep thou my words; and keep my behests to thee. (My son, remember my words; and keep my commands with thee.)

3Bind thou it in thy fingers; write thou it in the tables of thine heart. (Bind thou it on thy fingers; write thou it on the tablets of thy heart.)

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:10The Lord found him in a desert land, in the place of horror, either hideousness, and of waste wilderness; the Lord led him about, and taught him, and he kept him as the apple of his eye. (The Lord found them in a desert land, in a howling, wasted wilderness; and the Lord led them about, and taught them, and kept them as the apple of his eye.)

Psalms 119:144Thy witnessings is equity [into] without end (or Thy teachings be just forever); give thou understanding to me, and I shall live.

Proverbs 4:13Hold thou (fast to my) teaching, and forsake [thou] it not; keep thou it (near), for it is thy life.

Jeremiah 38:20Forsooth Jeremy answered, and said to him, They shall not betake thee; I beseech, hear thou the voice of the Lord, which I shall speak to thee, and it shall be well to thee, and thy soul shall live. (And Jeremiah answered, and said to him, They shall not deliver thee up; I beseech thee, listen thou to the words of the Lord, which I say to thee, and it shall be well with thee, and thou shalt live.)

John 12:49For I have not spoken of myself, but that Father that sent me, [he] gave to me a commandment, what I shall say, and what I shall speak.

John 15:14Ye be my friends if ye do those things, that I command to 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 →

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