Bible Strands
Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses a son, urging retention of parental instruction and commandments before promising extended days and peace in the following verse.
The words — תּוֹרָתִי (torati) translates literally as "my instruction," and יִצֹר לִבֶּךָ (yitzor libbekha) means "let your heart keep" or "guard."
The thread — The motif of internalizing divine instruction runs through Deuteronomy 6:6, which commands placing God's words upon the heart, and John 14:21, which identifies keeping commandments as evidence of love for Christ.
Why it lands — The text requires active mental and emotional custody of teaching rather than mere recollection, framing obedience as deliberate internal preservation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Cross-references
- John 14:21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
- Deuteronomy 6:6 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
- Psalms 119:16 I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
- Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
- Psalms 119:34 Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
- Psalms 119:93 I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
- Deuteronomy 8:1 You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
- Jeremiah 31:33 “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Psalms 119:11 I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.