Proverbs 7:2

2 Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.

Proverbs 7:2 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:2

Keep my commandments and live
Not the commandments of the law only, but the commandments of Christ; and even the doctrines of Christ are so called, as faith in him, and love to the saints, ( 1 John 3:23 ) ( John 14:21 John 14:23 ) ; which is the way to live comfortably, peaceably, pleasantly, and honourably; and my law as the apple of thine eye;
the doctrine of Christ, the law of the Lord, that goes out of Zion; which should be as dear to men as the apple of their eye, and as carefully preserved, that the least injury is not done to it; it should be kept inviolate.

Proverbs 7:2 In-Context

1 My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.

2 Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.

3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, "you are my sister," and you shall call insight, "{intimate friend}."

5 [In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

Footnotes

• [a] A single word meaning "pupil of the eye"