Proverbs 3:3

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.”

— WEB

“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:”

— KJV

“Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:”

— ASV

Cross-references

Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Proverbs 7:3 "Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart."
2 Corinthians 3:3 "being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets…"
Hebrews 10:16 "“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also writ…"
Deuteronomy 11:18-21 "Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be …"
Malachi 2:6 "The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned …"
Proverbs 6:21 "Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck."
Ephesians 5:1-2 "Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children."
Proverbs 16:6 "By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil."

Commentary

mercy and truth--God's faithfulness to His promises is often expressed by these terms (Psa 25:10; Psa 57:3). As attributes of men, they express integrity in a wide sense (Pro 16:6; Pro 20:28). bind . . . write . . . heart--outwardly adorn and inwardly govern motives.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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