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Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Proverbs 6:21
Hold them always to your heart. Tie them around your neck.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Always bind them to your heart;tie them around your neck.
Always bind them to your heart;tie them around your neck.
Hebrew Names Version
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
King James Version
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
English Standard Version
Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
New Century Version
Keep their words in mind forever as though you had them tied around your neck.
Keep their words in mind forever as though you had them tied around your neck.
New English Translation
Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
Amplified Bible
Bind them continually upon your heart (in your thoughts), And tie them around your neck.
Bind them continually upon your heart (in your thoughts), And tie them around your neck.
New American Standard Bible
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
World English Bible
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.
Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.
Legacy Standard Bible
Bind them continually on your heart;Tie them around your neck.
Bind them continually on your heart;Tie them around your neck.
Berean Standard Bible
Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
Contemporary English Version
always keep it in mind and never forget it.
always keep it in mind and never forget it.
Complete Jewish Bible
Bind them always on your heart, tie them around your neck.
Bind them always on your heart, tie them around your neck.
Darby Translation
bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:
bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:
Easy-to-Read Version
Remember their words always. Tie them around your neck and keep them over your heart.
Remember their words always. Tie them around your neck and keep them over your heart.
George Lamsa Translation
Impress them firmly on your heart and tie them about your neck.
Impress them firmly on your heart and tie them about your neck.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck.
Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck.
Literal Translation
Bind them to your heart forever; tie them around your neck.
Bind them to your heart forever; tie them around your neck.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Put the vp together in thine herte, and bynde the aboute thy necke.
Put the vp together in thine herte, and bynde the aboute thy necke.
American Standard Version
Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.
Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.
Bible in Basic English
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck.
Bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck.
King James Version (1611)
Binde them continually vpon thine heart, and tie them about thy necke.
Binde them continually vpon thine heart, and tie them about thy necke.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Tye them continually in thyne heart, and bynde them about thy necke.
Tye them continually in thyne heart, and bynde them about thy necke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck.
but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck.
English Revised Version
Bind them continually upon thine heart, tie them about thy neck.
Bind them continually upon thine heart, tie them about thy neck.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bynde thou tho continueli in thin herte; and cumpasse `to thi throte.
Bynde thou tho continueli in thin herte; and cumpasse `to thi throte.
Update Bible Version
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them about your neck.
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them about your neck.
Webster's Bible Translation
Bind them continually upon thy heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
Bind them continually upon thy heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
New King James Version
Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck.
Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck.
New Living Translation
Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck.
New Revised Standard
Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.
Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Bind them upon thy heart continually, fasten them upon thy neck;
Bind them upon thy heart continually, fasten them upon thy neck;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.
Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.
Revised Standard Version
Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.
Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.
Young's Literal Translation
Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
Contextual Overview
20 My son, keep the teaching of your father, and do not turn away from the teaching of your mother. 21 Hold them always to your heart. Tie them around your neck. 22 They will lead you when you walk. They will watch over you when you sleep, and they will talk with you when you wake up. 23 For the word is a lamp. The teaching is a light, and strong words that punish are the way of life. 24 They keep you from the sinful woman, from the smooth tongue of a sinful woman. 25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart. Do not let her catch you with her eyes. 26 For because of a woman who sells the use of her body, one is brought down to a loaf of bread. A sinful woman hunts to take a man's very life. 27 Can a man carry fire in his arms, and his clothes not be burned? 28 Can a man walk on hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will be punished.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 4:6, Proverbs 4:21, Proverbs 7:3, Proverbs 7:4, Exodus 13:16, Deuteronomy 6:8, 2 Corinthians 3:3
Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:3 - fear Proverbs 1:9 - they Proverbs 2:1 - hide Proverbs 4:20 - General Matthew 23:5 - they make 1 Thessalonians 5:21 - hold
Cross-References
Job 38:41
Who gets the food ready for the raven, when its young cry to God and go about without food?
Who gets the food ready for the raven, when its young cry to God and go about without food?
Job 40:20
For sure the mountains bring food to him where all the animals of the field play.
For sure the mountains bring food to him where all the animals of the field play.
Psalms 35:6
Let their way be dark and dangerous, with the angel of the Lord going to get them.
Let their way be dark and dangerous, with the angel of the Lord going to get them.
Psalms 136:25
He gives food to all men, for His loving-kindness lasts forever.
He gives food to all men, for His loving-kindness lasts forever.
Psalms 145:16
You open Your hand and fill the desire of every living thing.
You open Your hand and fill the desire of every living thing.
Psalms 147:9
He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens that cry.
He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens that cry.
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds in the sky. They do not plant seeds. They do not gather grain. They do not put grain into a building to keep. Yet your Father in heaven feeds them! Are you not more important than the birds?
Look at the birds in the sky. They do not plant seeds. They do not gather grain. They do not put grain into a building to keep. Yet your Father in heaven feeds them! Are you not more important than the birds?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Bind them continually upon thine heart,.... Not upon the head or arm, as the words of the law were to be bound, Deuteronomy 6:3; to which there seems to be an allusion; and which may confirm the sense of the words given, that this respects the law of God itself, and the precepts of it, instructed in by parents; but they should be bound upon the heart, and have an abiding place in the understanding, affections, memory, and will;
[and] tie them about thy neck; as an ornament, instead of a necklace of pearl, or chains of gold; they should be so far from being thought burdensome and troublesome, that they should be reckoned comely and graceful; see Proverbs 1:9.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The thought of Proverbs 3:3 is carried step further. No outward charm, but the law of obedience, shall give safety to the traveler, when he sleeps or when he wakes.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 6:21. Bind them continually upon thine heart — See on Proverbs 3:3. And see a similar command, to which this is an allusion, Deuteronomy 6:6-8.
