Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 7:1
1My son, keep my words and treasure my mitzvot 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 King James Version (NKJV)My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you.
Context of Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words and treasure my mitzvot within you. 2Keep my mitzvot and live, my teaching as the apple of your eye. 3Bind them on your fingers, 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 1:8Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
- Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my mitzvot.
- Luke 8:15But the seed in the good soil are those with a praiseworthy and good heart, who have heard the word and hold it fast and bear fruit with patient endurance.
- Luke 11:28But He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- John 14:23Yeshua answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.
- John 15:20“Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
- Revelation 1:3How fortunate is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and those who hear and keep what has been written in it—for the time is near.
- Revelation 22:9But he tells me, “See that you do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets and those keeping the words of this book. Worship God!”
- Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and treasure my mitzvot within you,
- Proverbs 10:14Wise men store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool is near ruin.
- Deuteronomy 11:28but the curse, if you do not listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God, but turn from the way I am commanding you today, to go after 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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