Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Parallel translations
- WEB Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
- BSB Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
- NKJV Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck.
- NASB Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
- NLT Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck.
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Quick answer
Keep this teaching ever close, bound to your heart and around your neck. Let wisdom be a constant, treasured companion.
Overview
The son is to bind his parents' instruction continually upon his heart, as one wears a cherished ornament. The imagery recalls the call in the Law to keep God's words ever before His people. Such internalized teaching guards and guides the believer through every season of life.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Prov 3:3Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
- Prov 7:3–4Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
- 2 Cor 3:3Forasmuch 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.
- Deut 6:8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
- Prov 4:6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
- Exod 13:16And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
- Prov 4:21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.
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