1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
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.
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.
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; …
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 c…
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