Proverbs 7:3
1 My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
2 Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
5 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- KJV
- Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
- WEB
- Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- ASV
- Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
- DARBY
- Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
- BLB
- Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- ÅB
- Bind dem på dine fingrer, skriv dem på ditt hjertes tavle!
- OTB
- Bind dem om dine fingre; skriv dem på ditt hjertes tavle.
- B1930
- Bind dem på dine fingrer, skriv dem på ditt hjertes tavle!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 11:18–20
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Read in contextProverbs 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 contextDeuteronomy 6:8–9
Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
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.
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 contextIsaiah 30:8
Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
Read in contextProverbs 6:21
Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:1
“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
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