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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 3:3
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Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you.Tie them around your neck;write them on the tablet of your heart.
Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Don't ever forget kindness and truth. Wear them like a necklace. Write them on your heart as if on a tablet.
Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Do not let mercy and kindness and truth leave you [instead let these qualities define you]; Bind them [securely] around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Let not mercie and trueth forsake thee: binde them on thy necke, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
Do not let lovingkindness and truth forsake you;Bind them around your neck,Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Let love and loyalty always show like a necklace, and write them in your mind.
Do not let grace and truth leave you — bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Let not loving-kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
Don't ever let love and loyalty leave you. Tie them around your neck, and write them on your heart.
And peace, mercy, and truth will not forsake you; bind them about your neck; write them upon the tablets of your heart:
Never let go of loyalty and faithfulness. Tie them around your neck; write them on your heart.
May loyal love and truth not forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them upon your heart.
Mercy and truth will not forsake you, tie them on your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart,
Let mercy & faithfulnes neuer go from ye: bynde the about yi necke, & wryte them in the tables of thine herte.
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee;
Let not mercy and trueth forsake thee: bind them about thy necke, write them vpon the table of thine heart.
Let mercie and faithfulnesse neuer go from thee: binde them about thy necke, and write them in the tables of thyne heart:
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; but bind them about thy neck:
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Merci and treuthe forsake thee not; bynde thou tho to thi throte, and write in the tablis of thin herte.
Don't let kindness and truth forsake you: Bind them about your neck;
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart:
Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,
Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart.
Do not let kindness and truth leave you. Tie them around your neck. Write them upon your heart.
Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Lovingkindness and faithfulness, let them not forsake thee, - bind them, upon thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.
Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
mercy: Proverbs 16:6, Proverbs 20:28, 2 Samuel 15:20, Psalms 25:10, Hosea 4:1, Micah 7:18-20, Malachi 2:6, Matthew 23:23, Ephesians 5:1, Ephesians 5:2, Ephesians 5:9
bind: Proverbs 6:21, Proverbs 7:3, Exodus 13:9, Deuteronomy 6:8, Deuteronomy 11:18-21, Psalms 119:11
write: Jeremiah 17:1, 2 Corinthians 3:3, Hebrews 10:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 24:49 - deal kindly and truly Deuteronomy 4:9 - keep thy soul Deuteronomy 33:24 - let him be 1 Samuel 2:26 - was in 1 Samuel 20:8 - deal kindly 2 Chronicles 9:7 - General Proverbs 4:21 - depart Daniel 6:3 - an Matthew 23:5 - they make Luke 1:63 - a Luke 2:52 - and in
Cross-References
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
He told the Woman: "I'll multiply your pains in childbirth; you'll give birth to your babies in pain. You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you."
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know your intentions were pure, that's why I kept you from sinning against me; I was the one who kept you from going to bed with her. So now give the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet and will pray for you—pray for your life. If you don't give her back, know that it's certain death both for you and everyone in your family."
"But what do you think would happen if you reached down and took away everything that is his? He'd curse you right to your face, that's what."
"Oh, friends, dear friends, take pity on me. God has come down hard on me! Do you have to be hard on me, too? Don't you ever tire of abusing me?
Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee,.... Or, forsake not them, and the exercise of them; show "mercy" to fellow creatures, to sinful men, to the bodies of men, by relieving their wants; and to their souls, by pitying and praying for them, and by giving them wholesome counsel and advice: to fellow Christians, sympathize with them in their troubles, put on bowels of compassion, be tenderhearted, and forgive offences; and, in a spirit of meekness, restore backsliders, for God will have mercy, and not sacrifice. Attend to "truth"; exercise faith on the Lord; cast not away your confidence; speak truth to your neighbour and brother; and hold fast the truth of the Gospel, and never depart from it. Though many interpreters understand this by way of promise, and as an encouragement to regard the doctrines and ordinances of Christ, rendering the words, "mercy and truth shall not forsake thee" g; meaning the mercy and truth of God; the "mercy" of God in forgiving sin, in sympathizing under affliction, in helping in time of need, in supplying with all needful grace, and in bringing to eternal life; for the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, upon them that fear him, Psalms 103:17; the "truth" of God, his faithfulness in performing promises, never fails; the unbelief of man cannot make it of no effect; though we believe not, he abides faithful and true to every word of his; not one shall fail, or pass away; all shall be fulfilled; see Psalms 89:33; "all [his] paths [are] mercy and truth", and he never goes out of them,
Psalms 25:10;
bind them about thy neck; as chains for ornament: not mercy and truth, just before mentioned, as may seem at first sight; but the law and commandments of wisdom, Proverbs 3:1; or the doctrines and ordinances of Christ; see Proverbs 1:8; reckon it as your greatest honour, glory, and beauty, that you steadfastly adhere to these things; nothing makes a believer look more lovely in conversation than a close regard to the truths of Christ, and a constant walking in his ordinances;
write them upon the table of thine heart; do not forget them, keep them in memory, and always retain a hearty affection for them; it is the Spirit's work to write them in the heart; and when they are there written, it is the work of saints, under a divine influence, to copy them over in life, and to show by their conduct and behaviour that they are written there; see Jeremiah 31:33. The allusion, in both phrases, is to the directions given about the law of Moses, Deuteronomy 6:8; and to the writing of his law on tables of stone: and it was usual with the ancients, in later times, to write on tables of wood; Solon's laws were written on tables of wood h; and such were the "tabellae et pugillares" of the Romans, made of box, beech, and other sorts of wood, covered with wax, on which they wrote; Deuteronomy 6:8- :; but Solomon would have his law written on the fleshly tables of the heart, 2 Corinthians 3:3.
g אל יעזבך "non derelinquent te", Piscator; "non deserent te", Michaelis; so Aben Ezra and Gersom. h Laert, Vit. Solon. A. Gell. Noet. Attic. l. 2. c. 12.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The two elements of a morally perfect character:
(1) “Mercy,” shutting out all forms of selfishness and hate.
(2) “Truth,” shutting out all deliberate falsehood, all hypocrisy, conscious or unconscious.
The words that follow possibly refer to the Eastern custom of writing sacred names on pieces of papyrus or parchment, and wearing them around the neck, as charms and talismans against evil. Compare, however, 1 Peter 3:3-4.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 3:3. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee — Let these be thy constant companions through life.
Bind them about thy neck — Keep them constantly in view. Write them upon the table of thine heart - let them be thy moving principles; feel them as well as see them.
