Proverbs 7 · Verse 1

Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Proverbs 7:1, King James Version

Proverbs 7:1 in other translations

BSBMy son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
WEBMy son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
ASVMy son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
YLTMy son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
DARBYMy son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
BBEMy son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
WebsterMy son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

What does Proverbs 7:1 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:1-4

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.).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Introduction

A farther exhortation to acquire wisdom, in order to be preserved from impure connections, Pro 7:1-5. The character of a harlot, and her conduct towards a youth who fell into her snare, vv. 6-23. Solemn exhortations to avoid this evil, Pro 7:24-27. Verse 1 My son, keep my words - See Pro 2:1.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:1-5
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 us, and so be written where it will be always at hand to be read. Thus we shall be kept from the fatal effects of our own passions, and the snares of Satan. Let God's word confirm our dread of sin, and resolutions against it.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Proverbs 7:1 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּ֭נִיBe.niO son myH1121
שְׁמֹ֣רshe.MorkeepH8104
אֲמָרָ֑י'a.ma.Raiwords myH561
וּ֝מִצְוֹתַ֗יu.mitz.vo.Taiand commandments myH4687
תִּצְפֹּ֥ןtitz.Ponyou will treasureH6845
אִתָּֽךְ\׃'i.Takhwith youH854

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 7:1

  • Proverbs 1:8

    My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • 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.

  • Luke 11:28

    But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

  • Proverbs 2:1-7

    My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; …

  • John 14:23

    Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

  • 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.

  • Job 22:22

    Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

  • John 15:20

    Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

  • Proverbs 3:1

    My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

  • Deuteronomy 11:28

    And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

  • Luke 8:15

    But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

  • Proverbs 10:14

    Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom.
6 In an example of his own experience, he shews,
10 the cunning of a harlot;
22 and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton.
24 He dehorteth from such wickedness.

My son.
1:8; 3:1
keep.
Lu 8:15; 11:28; Joh 14:23; 15:20; Re 1:3; 22:9
lay.
2:1-7; 10:14; De 11:28; Job 22:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 7:1

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

  • Proverbs 7:2

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

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Proverbs 7:1 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		HIJO mío, guarda mis razones, y encierra contigo mis mandamientos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mon fils, garde mes paroles et cache par-devers toi mes commandements.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Mein Sohn, bewahre meine Worte, und birg bei dir meine Gebote;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Fili mi, custodi sermones meos, et præcepta mea reconde tibi. Fili,