My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices3
My son, keep my words, etc. And this section is the same as previously explained more fully under the person of the harlot.
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735patristic
My son, keep my words,.... Doctrines and instructions; which, as a father to a son, or a master to his scholars, he had delivered; these he would have him observe and attend to; and lay up my commandments with thee: as a treasure in his heart, to be brought out upon occasion; to be kept as valuable, and made use of as an antidote against and a preservative from sinning; see Psa 119:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The harlot adulteress of an Eastern city is contrasted with the true feminine ideal of the Wisdom who is to be the sister and kinswoman Pro 7:4 of the young man as he goes on his way through life. See Prov. 8 in the introduction.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
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Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
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I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
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Revelation 1:3Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.
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But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of prophecy in this book, because the time is near.
And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
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We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.
But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”
Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
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