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Proverbs 6:21

Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Word of God;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Children;   Commandment;   Life;   Obedience;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Earrings;   Frontlets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Phylacteries;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amulet;   Neck;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Phylacteries;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.
King James Version
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.
New Century Version
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.
Amplified Bible
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.
World English Bible
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.
Legacy Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
always keep it in mind and never forget it.
Complete Jewish Bible
Bind them always on your heart, tie them around your neck.
Darby Translation
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.
George Lamsa Translation
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.
Literal Translation
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.
American Standard Version
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
English Revised Version
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.
Update Bible Version
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.
New King James Version
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.
New Life Bible
Hold them always to your heart. Tie them around your neck.
New Revised Standard
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;
Revised Standard Version
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.

Contextual Overview

20 My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. 21 Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck. 22 When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee, and when thou awakest, talk with them. 23 Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger. 25 Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks: 26 For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man. 27 Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? 28 Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt? 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.

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 provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?
Job 40:20
(40-15) To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.
Psalms 35:6
(34-6) Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.
Psalms 136:25
(135-25) Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 145:16
(144-16) Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature.
Psalms 147:9
(146-9) Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.
Matthew 6:26
Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

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.


 
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