Proverbs 7:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Proverbs 7:2 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Leviticus 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Proverbs 4:4
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
1 John 2:3-4
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. …
John 15:14
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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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. 2)

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.).