Proverbs 6:21 “Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.”

Proverbs 6:21

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

World English Bible

Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

American Standard Version

Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.

Geneva Bible 1599

Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.

Darby Translation

bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:

Young's Literal Translation

Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

Bible in Basic English

Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

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Cross references

“Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.”

Proverbs 3:3 2 Corinthians 3:3 Proverbs 4:6 Exodus 13:16 Deuteronomy 6:8 Proverbs 4:21

Proverbs 3:3 · BSB

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

2 Corinthians 3:3 · BSB

It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Proverbs 4:6 · BSB

Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.

Exodus 13:16 · BSB

So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

Deuteronomy 6:8 · BSB

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Proverbs 4:21 · BSB

Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.

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

In context

20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

22When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

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