Proverbs 7:2

Proverbs 7:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
• English Standard Version (ESV)keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
• New King James Version (NKJV)Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes.

Context of Proverbs 7:2

1My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. 3Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”

Proverbs 7:2 word by word

שְׁמֹ֣ר מִצְוֹתַ֣י וֶחְיֵ֑ה וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Keepשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: guardH8104
• my commandmentsמִצְוָהmitsvâh · commandmentH4687
• and liveחָיָהchâyâh · to liveH2421
• and my lawתּוֹרָהtôrâh tôrâh · instructionH8451
• as the appleאִישׁוֹן'îyshôn · pupilH380
• of thine eyeעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869

Cross-references for Proverbs 7:2

• Proverbs 4:13Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.
• Leviticus 18:5Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the Lord.
• Isaiah 55:3Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
• John 12:49For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.
• John 14:21Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
• John 15:14You are my friends if you do what I command.
• 1 John 2:3We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.
• 1 John 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
• Revelation 22:14“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
• Deuteronomy 32:10In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
• Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings
• Zechariah 2:8For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye—

Commentaries on Proverbs 7:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2As the apple of thine eye - As the pupil of the eye, which is of such essential necessity to sight, and so easily injured.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2guard my teachings as the apple of your eye: Or, with great care.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271-4. Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).Read the comment

Topics related to Proverbs 7:2

• Chastity
• Commandments
• Wisdom
• Young Men

In the dictionaries

• Apple
• Black
• Chamber
• Discern
• Goodman
• Loud
• Adultery
• Apple, of the Eye
• Eye
• Hezekiah (2)

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