A Stroll Through Proverbs: Proverbs 4:20-4:22 & Proverbs 4:23-4:27, “Preserve Your Heart”

Proverbs 4:20-22

20 “^aMy son ^battend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

            ^aProverbs 2:1, ^bProverbs 5:1

21 ^cLet them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

            ^cProverbs 3:21, 7:1

22 For they are life unto those that find them, and ^dhealth [medicine] to all their flesh.

            ^dProverbs 3:8, 22

Proverbs 4:23-27 - "Preserve Your Heart"

23 “Keep [guard] thy heart [will, intellect] with *all diligence [care]; for out of it ^aare the issues of life.

            ^aMatthew 12:34, 15:18-19, Luke 6:45; *my emphasis

24 ^bPut away [avoid] from thee a froward [deceitful] mouth and perverse [devious] lips put far from thee.

            ^bEphesians 4:29, Job 11:14

25 ^cLet thine eyes look right on [straight before oneself], and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

            ^cJob 31:1

26 ^dPonder [watch] the path [course of action] of thy ^efeet [steps], and ¹let all thy ways be established.

            ^dHebrews 12:13; ^eProverbs 5:21; ¹All thy ways shall be ordered aright [without wrong]

27 ^fTurn not to the right hand nor to the left: ^gremove thy foot from evil.”

            ^fDeuteronomy 5:32, 28:14; ^gIsaiah 1:16