American Standard Version
Proverbs 7:3
3Bind them upon thy fingers;Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
Proverbs 7:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
- New International Version (NIV)Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- English Standard Version (ESV)bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Context of Proverbs 7:3
1My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. 2Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart. 4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understandingthy kinswoman: 5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
Read all of Proverbs 7Proverbs 7:3 word by word
קָשְׁרֵ֥ם עַל־אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם עַל־ל֥וּחַ לִבֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 7:3
- Proverbs 3:3Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
- Proverbs 6:21Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.
- Deuteronomy 6:8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.
- Deuteronomy 11:18Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
- Isaiah 30:8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
- Jeremiah 17:1The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, andwith the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
- Jeremiah 31:33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables that are hearts of flesh.
Commentaries on Proverbs 7:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Bind them upon thy fingers - See on Proverbs 3:3; (note).Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The Old Testament uses the phrase "tie them to your fingers" as a reminder to remember important things, especially God's commands (Deuteronomy 6:8; 11:18). The New Living Translation's "write them deep within your heart" reflects the Hebrew saying write them on the tablet of your heart (see also Proverbs 3:3). Only obedience that comes from the heart will endure.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271-4. Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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