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Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.
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The Fountain of Your Life
Commentators unanimously emphasize that the heart is the source of everything. Albert Barnes compares it to a carefully guarded well, because from this single fountain flow all the "issues" or streams of life. Scholars note the original Hebrew implies guarding the heart "above all things," because its condition determines the course of your entire life, for good or for ill.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Better, as noted in the margin, that is, with more vigilance than people use over anything else. The words that follow carry on the same analogy. T…
19th Century
Anglican
Keep thy heart with all diligence. —Rather, above all things that are to be guarded.
For out of it are the issues of l…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Keep your heart with all diligence The mind from vanity, the understanding from error, the will from perverseness, t…
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