Proverbs 7:2 (BSB)

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 7:2

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:1-5: These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, Pro 6:20, etc., and ending (Pro 7:5) as that did (Pro 6:24), To keep thee from the strange woman; that is it he aims at; only there he had said, Keep thy father's commandment, here (which comes all to one), Keep my commandments, for he speaks to us as unto sons.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:2: Keep my commandments and live,.... Not the commandments of the law only, but the commandments of Christ; and even the doctrines of Christ are so called, as faith in him, and love to the saints, Jo1 3:23; which is the way to live comfortably, peaceably, pleasantly, and honourably; and my law as the apple of thine eye; the doctrine of Christ, the law of the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 7:2: apple . . . eye--pupil of eye, a custody (Pro 4:23) of special value.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 7:2: Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye. (a) By this diversity of words, he means that nothing should be so dear to us as the word of God, nor that we look on anything more nor mind anything so much.