Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Proverbs 7:2 in other translations
| BSB | Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. |
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| WEB | Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. |
| ASV | Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. |
| YLT | Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye. |
| DARBY | Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye. |
| BBE | Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes; |
| Webster | Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye. |
What does Proverbs 7:2 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.).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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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…
Proverbs 7:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 7:2
- 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. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
- John 14:21
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
- 1 John 5:1-3
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
- Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
- John 15:14
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
- John 12:49-50
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
- Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Zechariah 2:8
For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
4:13; Le 18:5; Isa 55:3; Joh 12:49,50; 14:21; 15:14; 1Jo 2:3,4
1Jo 5:1-3; Re 22:14
as the.As the pupil of the eye, the hole or the opening of the uveous coat, or iris, through which the rays of light pass, and falling upon the retina, there depict every object in its natural colour, as upon a piece of white paper. Now the pupil of the eye being essentially necessary to sight, and easily injured, it is not only, in common with the other parts, deeply entrenched in the skull, ramparted with the forehead and cheek bones, defended by the eyebrows, eyelids, and eyelashes, and placed so as to be best protected by the hands, but, by a wonderful mechanism, is contracted or dilated by the muscular power of the iris, without which an excess of light would cause instant blindness.
De 32:10; Ps 17:8; Zec 2:8
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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.
- Proverbs 7:3
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Proverbs 7:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Guarda mis mandamientos, y vivirás; y mi ley como las niñas de tus ojos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Garde mes commandements, et tu vivras, – et mon enseignement, comme la prunelle de tes yeux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | bewahre meine Gebote und lebe, und meine Belehrung wie deinen Augapfel. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | serva mandata mea, et vives; et legem meam quasi pupillam oculi tui: |