Key Verse Spotlight
Proverbs 23:26 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.”
Proverbs 23:26
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise {child} shall have joy of him.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
For a whore {is} a deep ditch; and a strange woman {is} a narrow pit.
She also lieth in wait as {for} a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. {as for...: or, as a robber}
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