Proverbs 6:21
19 a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
23 For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
- KJV
- Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
- WEB
- Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
- ASV
- Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.
- DARBY
- bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:
- BLB
- Bind them upon your heart continually; tie them around your neck.
- ÅB
- Bind dem alltid til ditt hjerte, knytt dem fast om din hals!
- OTB
- Bind dem stadig på ditt hjerte; fest dem rundt din hals.
- B1930
- Bind dem alltid til ditt hjerte, knytt dem fast om din hals!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 3:3
Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Read in contextProverbs 7:3–4
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:3
It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:8
Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Read in contextExodus 13:16
So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
Read in contextProverbs 4:6
Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
Read in contextProverbs 4:21
Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
Read in context