Proverbs 6:23 (BSB)

For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:23

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 6:20-35: Here is, I. A general exhortation faithfully to adhere to the word of God and to take it for our guide in all our actions. 1. We must look upon the word of God both as a light (Pro 6:23) and as a law, Pro 6:20, Pro 6:23.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 6:23: To keep thee from the evil woman,.... This is one use of the profit arising from attending to the instructions of parents, and to the law of God, as taught by them; to preserve from fornication and adultery, one of its precepts expressly forbidding adultery and all corporeal uncleanness; and the whole of it directing to an observance of all duties respecting God and our...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 6:23: reproofs-- (Pro 1:23) the convictions of error produced by instruction.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 6:23: For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life: (k) By the commandment, he means the word of God; and by the instruction, the preaching and declaration of the same, which is committed to the Church. (l) And reprehensions when the word is preached bring us to life.