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Proverbs 4

Prov. 4:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Keep
natsar (Hebrew #5341)
to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
KJV usage: besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).
Pronounce: naw-tsar'
Origin: a primitive root
thy heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
ρwith all diligence
mishmar (Hebrew #4929)
a guard (the man, the post or the prison); a deposit (fig.); also (as observed) a usage (abstr.), or an example (concr.)
KJV usage: diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.
Pronounce: mish-mawr'
Origin: from 8104
; for out of it are the issues
towtsa'ah (Hebrew #8444)
from 3318; (only in plural collective) exit, i.e. (geographical) boundary, or (figuratively) deliverance, (actively) source
KJV usage: border(-s), going(-s) forth (out), issues, outgoings.
Pronounce: to-tsaw-aw'
Origin: or totsaah {to-tsaw-aw'}
of life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
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above all keeping.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 22:5• 5Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them. (Prov. 22:5)
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Prov. 23:19• 19Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way. (Prov. 23:19)
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Prov. 28:26• 26He that confideth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. (Prov. 28:26)
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Deut. 4:9• 9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons), (Deut. 4:9)
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Psa. 139:23‑24• 23Search me, O *God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
 24And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psa. 139:23‑24)
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Jer. 17:9• 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it? (Jer. 17:9)
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Mark 14:38• 38Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh weak. (Mark 14:38)
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Heb. 12:15• 15watching lest there be any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it; (Heb. 12:15)
with all diligence.
Heb. above all keeping.
Prov. 4:7• 7The beginning of wisdom is, Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence. (Prov. 4:7)
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Prov. 3:21• 21My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; keep sound wisdom and discretion: (Prov. 3:21)
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Prov. 11:16• 16A gracious woman retaineth honour; and the violent retain riches. (Prov. 11:16)
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Prov. 13:3• 3He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips. (Prov. 13:3)
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Eccl. 5:13• 13There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt; (Eccl. 5:13)
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Matt. 12:35• 35The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings forth wicked things. (Matt. 12:35)
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Matt. 15:19• 19For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:19)
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Mark 7:21‑23• 21For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
 22thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;
 23all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the man. (Mark 7:21‑23)
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James 1:14‑15• 14But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;
 15then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death. (James 1:14‑15)
• Just as the heart is the center of the physical system, whence flow the issues of life, so, in a moral and spiritual sense, the heart, used as a synonym for the soul, is that which must be jealously guarded, that thence may go forth that which is for the upbuilding of the child of God. (“Proverbs Four” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.