Proverbs 7:3
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- 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
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Read in contextProverbs 3:3
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:8–9
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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 contextIsaiah 30:8
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Read in contextProverbs 6:21
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
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