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Proverbs 4:23 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 4 · verse 23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.Proverbs 4:23 · King James Version
What Proverbs 4:23 means
Keep is a guarding word, the kind used of a city wall. Solomon gives the reason rather than only the order: everything else comes out of there. The verses around it deal with eyes, mouth and feet, and the heart is listed first because it governs the rest.
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Proverbs 4:23 in context
21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Commentary
Cross references
- Luke 6:45
- Matthew 12:34-35
- Mark 7:21-23
- Psalms 139:23-24
- Proverbs 13:3
- Jeremiah 17:9
- Matthew 15:19
- Proverbs 23:19
Key words (Strong's)
- diligencemishmâra guardH4929 →
- issuestôwtsâʼâhexitH8444 →
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
- Keepnâtsarto guard, in a good sense or a bad oneH5341 →
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Solomon, having warned us not to do evil, here teaches us how to do well. It is not enough for us to shun the occasions of sin, but we must study the methods of duty. I. We must have a continual regard to the word of God and endeavour that it may be always ready to us. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-27