Proverbs 3:1 (WEB)

Passage

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Nearby Context

Proverbs 3:1 My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Proverbs 3:2 for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

Proverbs 3:3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "forget", "teaching", "heart", "keep", and "commandments". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "forget" and "teaching", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "for length of days and years of...", so "forget" and "teaching" should be read forward into that movement. In Proverbs context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "forget" and "teaching" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.