Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
2 for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
3 Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
- KJV
- My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
- WEB
- My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
- ASV
- My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:
- DARBY
- My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments;
- BLB
- My son, do not forget my instruction, and let your heart keep my commands.
- ÅB
- Min sønn! Glem ikke min lære og la ditt hjerte bevare mine bud!
- OTB
- Min sønn, glem ikke min lære, men la ditt hjerte følge mine bud;
- B1930
- Min sønn! Glem ikke min lære og la ditt hjerte bevare mine bud!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 14:21–24
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
Read in contextProverbs 4:5
Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:6–9
These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
Read in contextPsalms 119:16
I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
Read in contextProverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Read in contextPsalms 119:93
I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
Read in contextPsalms 119:34
Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
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