English Standard Version
Proverbs 3:5
5Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
- New International Version (NIV)Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
- New King James Version (NKJV)Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
- New Living Translation (NLT)Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.
Context of Proverbs 3:5
3Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 7Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
Read all of Proverbs 3Proverbs 3:5 word by word
בְּטַ֣ח אֶל־יְ֭הוָה בְּכָל־לִבֶּ֑ךָ וְאֶל־בִּֽ֝ינָתְךָ֗ אַל־תִּשָּׁעֵֽן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 3:5
- Proverbs 22:19That your trust may be in the Lord, I have made them known to you today, even to you.
- Job 13:15Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
- Psalms 37:3Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
- Psalms 62:8Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
- Psalms 115:9O Israel, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.
- Psalms 125:1Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
- Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
- Isaiah 12:2"Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation."
- Isaiah 26:3You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
- Jeremiah 17:7"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
- Ephesians 1:12so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
- Proverbs 3:7Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
- Proverbs 23:4Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
- Proverbs 28:26Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
- Jeremiah 9:23Thus says the Lord: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
- Jeremiah 10:23I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Commentaries on Proverbs 3:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Trust in the Lord with all thine heart - This is a most important precept: God is the Fountain of all good. He has made his intelligent creatures dependent upon himself. He requires them to be conscious of that dependence. He has promised to communicate what they need. He commands them to believe his promise, and look for its fulfillment. And to do this without doubt, fear, or distrust; "with their whole heart." Lean not unto thine own understanding…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5In preaching “trust in God” the moralist anticipates the teaching that man is justified by faith. To confide in God‘s will, the secret of all true greatness, is to rise out of all our anxieties and plans and fears when we think of ourselves as the arbiters of our own fortunes, and so “lean to our own understanding.”Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6On the journey to wisdom, God guides us through the wisdom in his word.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Trust ... heart--This is the center and marrow of true wisdom (Pr 22:19; 28:25). The positive duty has its corresponding negation in the admonition against self-confidence.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 3
- 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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