New English Translation
Proverbs 7:1
1My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.
Proverbs 7:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
- New International Version (NIV)My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;
- New King James Version (NKJV)My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you.
Context of Proverbs 7:1
My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping. 2Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession. 3Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.
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בְּ֭נִי שְׁמֹ֣ר אֲמָרָ֑י וּ֝מִצְוֹתַ֗י תִּצְפֹּ֥ן אִתָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 7:1
- Proverbs 1:8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
- Proverbs 3:1My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
- Luke 8:15But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.
- Luke 11:28But he replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”
- John 14:23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
- John 15:20Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.
- Revelation 1:3Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!
- Revelation 22:9But he said to me, “Do not do this! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who obey the words of this book. Worship God!”
- Proverbs 2:1My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
- Proverbs 10:14Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.
- Deuteronomy 11:28and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.
- Job 22:22Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.
Commentaries on Proverbs 7:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1My son, keep my words - See Proverbs 2:1.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1The harlot adulteress of an Eastern city is contrasted with the true feminine ideal of the Wisdom who is to be the “sister” and “kinswoman” Proverbs 7:4 of the young man as he goes on his way through life. See Proverbs 8 in the introduction.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Invitations to learn wisdom. (1-5) The arts of seducers, with warnings against them. (6-27) Verses 1-5 We must lay up God's commandments safely. Not only, Keep them, and you shall live; but, Keep them as those that cannot live without them. Those that blame strict and careful walking as needless and too precise, consider not that the law is to be kept as the apple of the eye; indeed the law in the heart is the eye of the soul. Let the word of God dwell in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-27This is the final section in Proverbs 1–9 that warns about the dangers of promiscuous women (see also Proverbs 2:16–22; 5:1–23; 6:20–35).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271-4. Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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