New King James Version
Proverbs 7:1
1My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you.
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 Living Translation (NLT)Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands.
Context of Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you. 2Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye. 3Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Read all of Proverbs 7Proverbs 7:1 word by word
בְּ֭נִי שְׁמֹ֣ר אֲמָרָ֑י וּ֝מִצְוֹתַ֗י תִּצְפֹּ֥ן אִתָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 7:1
- Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother;
- Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands;
- Luke 8:15But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.
- Luke 11:28But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
- John 14:23Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
- John 15:20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
- Revelation 1:3Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.
- Revelation 22:9Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
- Proverbs 2:1My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,
- Proverbs 10:14Wise people store up knowledge, But the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
- Deuteronomy 11:28and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
- Job 22:22Receive, please, instruction from His mouth, And lay 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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