Proverbs 5:2

And that thy lips may keep - literally, “and thy lips shall keep.”

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 5:2

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:1-9 ; Proverbs 5:10-19 ; Proverbs 5:20-23 . Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3 ....
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

regard discretion, &c. Hebrew infinitive. to guard deep counsels and knowledge. Let them mount guard over thy lips. Compare James 3:8 , "the t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

That thy lips may keep knowledge— The LXX read, The understanding of my lips commands thee; have nothing to do with a strange woman; for honey dis...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. That thou mayest regard discretion, and (that) thy lips may keep kn...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Unholy Passion. Hallowed Love A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequen...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die fo...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Quicksands! Keep Off! Proverbs 5:1-14 It is a matter for great thankfulness that the Bible, which is God's book rather than man's, deals so str...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching....
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That thou mayest regard discretion ,.... Observe it; retain it in thine heart, as Aben Ezra adds, and use it; think, speak, and act discreetly, and...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge. Ver. 2. That thou mayest regard discretion. ] Or, That thou mayest kee...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My son, attend unto my wisdom “There being nothing,” says Bishop Patrick, “to which youth is so prone as to give up themselves to satisfy their fle...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Regard, or, keep , i.e. hold fast, as it is in the next clause. Discretion ; spiritual wisdom for the conduct of thy life, as this word is used...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Need To Listen To Solomon's Wisdom And Not To Be Enticed By The Words Of The Strange Woman Which Lead To Death And Slavery ( Proverbs 5:1-14 )....
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19 Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 5:3 . The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb. She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how...
The Biblical Illustrator

My son, attend unto my wisdom. Caution against sexual sins The scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth...
The Biblical Illustrator

That thou mayest regard discretion. The wise man’s intention in giving advice Some knit these words to what follows, and understand them thus:...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 5:1-20 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this d...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Warning against Wantonness
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

that thou mayest regard discretion, the reflection and consideration needed for circumspect behavior, and that thy lips may keep knowledge, preserv...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Malachi 2:6 ; Malachi 2:7 ; Proverbs 10:21 ; Proverbs 15:2 ; Proverbs 15:7 ; Proverbs 16:23 ; Proverbs 20:15 ; Psalms 119:13 ; Psalms 45:2 ;...

² That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 5:2

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 5:2