Proverbs 7:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

Proverbs 7:1 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Luke 11:28
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Revelation 1:3
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Revelation 22:9
Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
Proverbs 2:1-7
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; …

Topics

Chastity Children Commandments Continence Discipleship Disobedience to God Duty Law

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, Prov. 6:20; and ending (Pr. 7:5) as that did (Pr. 7:24), To keep thee from the strange woman; that is it he aims at; only there he had said, Keep thy father’s commandment, here (which comes all to one), Keep my commandments, for he speaks to us as unto sons. He speaks in God’s name; for it is God’s comm…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Pr 7:1-27. The subject continued, by a delineation of the arts of strange women, as a caution to the unwary. 1-4. Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).