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Proverbs 4:23
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Guard your heart above all else,for it is the source of life.
Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.
Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.
Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.
Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.
Guard your heart with all diligence,For from it flow the springs of life.
Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.
Above everything else, guard your heart; for it is the source of life's consequences.
Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
Above all, be careful what you think because your thoughts control your life.
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.
With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it comes the source of life.
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
Kepe thine hert with all diligence, for there vpon hangeth life.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart; for out of it are the issues of life.
Keepe thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life.
Kepe thyne heart with all diligence, for out of it issueth lyfe.
Keep thine heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
With al keping kepe thin herte, for lijf cometh forth of it.
Keep your heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
Keep your heart pure for out of it are the important things of life.
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Above all that must be guarded, keep thou thy heart, for, out of it, are the issues of life.
With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
Keep your heart with all vigilance; for from it flow the springs of life.
Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.
Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts. Don't talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Keep: Proverbs 22:5, Proverbs 23:19, Proverbs 28:26, Deuteronomy 4:9, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Jeremiah 17:9, Mark 14:38, Hebrews 12:15
with all diligence: Heb. above all keeping, Proverbs 4:7, Proverbs 3:21, Proverbs 11:16, Proverbs 13:3, Ecclesiastes 5:13
for: Matthew 12:35, Matthew 15:19, Mark 7:21-23, James 1:14, James 1:15
Reciprocal: Exodus 20:17 - wife Exodus 35:21 - General Deuteronomy 4:15 - Take ye Deuteronomy 15:9 - Beware Joshua 7:21 - took them Joshua 22:5 - take Joshua 23:11 - Take good 2 Samuel 22:24 - kept 1 Kings 11:9 - his heart 2 Kings 10:31 - took no heed Psalms 68:20 - issues Psalms 119:80 - sound Proverbs 14:30 - sound Proverbs 23:26 - give Song of Solomon 8:12 - vineyard Isaiah 39:2 - was glad Jeremiah 6:7 - a fountain Jeremiah 17:21 - Take Malachi 2:15 - take Matthew 6:21 - there Mark 7:15 - but 2 Peter 1:5 - giving 1 John 5:18 - keepeth
Cross-References
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord .
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Keep thy heart with all diligence,.... The mind from vanity, the understanding from error, the will from perverseness, the conscience clear of guilt, the affections from being inordinate and set on evil objects, the thoughts from being employed on bad subjects; and the whole from falling into the hands of the enemy, or being the possession of Satan: great diligence had need be used in keeping it, since it is naturally so deceitful and treacherous; a strict eye is to be kept upon it; all the avenues to it to be watched, that nothing hurtful enters, or evil comes out; it is to be kept by all manner of means that can be thought of, by prayer, hearing, reading, meditation; and, above all, by applying to Christ for his grace and Spirit to sanctify, preserve, and keep it. Or, "above all keeping, keep thine heart" b; though other things are to be kept, and care taken of them, as kingdoms and cities, and towns and families, and treasures and riches; yet the heart above all:
for out of it [are] the issues of life; of natural life: it is the seat of it, from whence all actions of life are derived; it is, as philosophers say, the first that lives, and the last that dies; and it is the seat of spiritual life the principle of it is formed in it; from whence all spiritual and vital actions flow, and which lead unto and issue in eternal life: as is a man's heart, such is his state now, and will be hereafter; if the heart is quickened and sanctified by the grace of God, the man will live a life of faith and holiness here, and enjoy everlasting life hereafter: and if the heart is right, so will the actions of men be; they are regulated and denominated by it; they will then spring from right principles, and be directed to right ends, and performed with right views; great care therefore should be taken of the heart, since so much depends upon it, and it is so well known to God the searcher of it.
b מכל משמר "prae omni custodia", Vatablus, Baynus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis, Schultens; so Aben Ezra and Ben Melech.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Better, as in the margin, i. e., with more vigilance than men use over anything else. The words that follow carry on the same similitude. The fountains and wells of the East were watched over with special care. The heart is such a fountain, out of it flow the “issues” of life. Shall men let those streams be tainted at the fountain-head?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:23. Keep thy heart with all diligence — "Above all keeping," guard thy heart. He who knows any thing of himself, knows how apt his affections are to go astray.
For out of it are the issues of life. — תוצאות חיים totseoth chaiyim, "the goings out of lives." Is not this a plain allusion to the arteries which carry the blood from the heart through the whole body, and to the utmost extremities? As long as the heart is capable of receiving and propelling the blood, so long life is continued. Now as the heart is the fountain whence all the streams of life proceed, care must be taken that the fountain be not stopped up nor injured. A double watch for its safety must be kept up. So in spiritual things: the heart is the seat of the Lord of life and glory; and the streams of spiritual life proceed from him to all the powers and faculties of the soul. Watch with all diligence, that this fountain be not sealed up, nor these streams of life be cut off. Therefore "put away from thee a froward mouth and perverse lips - and let thy eyes look straight on." Or, in other words, look inward - look onward - look upward.
I know that the twenty-third verse is understood as principally referring to the evils which proceed from the heart, and which must be guarded against; and the good purposes that must be formed in it, from which life takes its colouring. The former should be opposed; the latter should be encouraged and strengthened. If the heart be pure and holy, all its purposes will be just and good. If it be impure and defiled, nothing will proceed from it but abomination. But though all this be true, I have preferred following what I believe to be the metaphor in the text.
