Proverbs 1:9 “For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your…”

Proverbs 1:9

For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

World English Bible

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

American Standard Version

For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

Geneva Bible 1599

For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.

Darby Translation

for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Young's Literal Translation

For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

Bible in Basic English

For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

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Cross references

“they”

Proverbs 4:9 Proverbs 3:22 Proverbs 6:20 Proverbs 6:21 1 Timothy 2:9 1 Timothy 2:10

Proverbs 4:9 · BSB

She will set a garland of grace on your head; she will present you with a crown of beauty.”

Proverbs 3:22 · BSB

They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.

Proverbs 6:20 · BSB

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 6:21 · BSB

Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

1 Timothy 2:9 · BSB

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

1 Timothy 2:10 · BSB

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

“an ornament”

Daniel 5:29 Genesis 41:42 Isaiah 3:19 Ezekiel 16:11 Song of Solomon 1:10 Song of Solomon 4:9

Daniel 5:29 · BSB

Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

Genesis 41:42 · BSB

Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

Isaiah 3:19 · BSB

their pendants, bracelets, and veils;

Ezekiel 16:11 · BSB

I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.

Song of Solomon 1:10 · BSB

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

Song of Solomon 4:9 · BSB

You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

10My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

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