Proverbs 7:1
My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
In Context
2Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.
Cross References
Job 22:22Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
Proverbs 5:5Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
Proverbs 10:14The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool [is] near ruin.
Luke 11:28And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping [it]!'
John 15:20'Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;
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 →