Proverbs 7:1

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Summary

Proverbs 7:1

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

My son

Proverbs 1:8

Proverbs 3:1

Keep

Lay

General references

Proverbs 4:20

Proverbs 6:20

Bible References

My son

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

Keep

And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain it, and bear fruit in continuance.

And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

Jesus answered and said to him, 'If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

'Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the time is nigh!

and he saith to me, 'See -- not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.'

Lay

My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool is near ruin.

and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

General references

My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.