Proverbs 6:21
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of 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
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Read in contextProverbs 7:3–4
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:3
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:8
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Read in contextExodus 13:16
And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
Read in contextProverbs 4:6
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Read in contextProverbs 4:21
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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