Proverbs 23:26
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My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.

my son

Proverbs 23:15 My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:

give

Proverbs 4:23 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

Deuteronomy 6:5 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.

Matthew 10:37,38 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. . . .

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:14,15 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:5 And not as we hoped: but they gave their own selves, first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God;

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

let

Proverbs 4:25-27 Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. . . .

Psalm 107:43 Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

Psalm 119:2,9-11 Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart. . . .

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

2 Peter 1:19 And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.

Context
True Riches
25Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee. 26My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.27For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.…
Cross References
Psalm 1:2
But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

Psalm 119:24
For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.

Proverbs 3:1
For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.

Proverbs 4:4
Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Lexicon
My son,
בְנִ֣י (ḇə·nî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

give
תְּנָֽה־ (tə·nāh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

me your heart,
לִבְּךָ֣ (lib·bə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

and let your eyes
וְ֝עֵינֶ֗יךָ (wə·‘ê·ne·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

delight
תִּצֹּֽרְנָה׃‪‬ (tiṣ·ṣō·rə·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7521: To be pleased with, to satisfy a, debt

in my ways.
דְּרָכַ֥י (də·rā·ḵay)
Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action


Additional Translations
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.

My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.
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