English Standard Version
Proverbs 7:3
3bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Tie them on your fingers as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart.
Context of Proverbs 7:3
1My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; 2keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend, 5to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
Read all of Proverbs 7Proverbs 7:3 word by word
קָשְׁרֵ֥ם עַל־אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם עַל־ל֥וּחַ לִבֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 7:3
- Proverbs 3:3Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 6:21Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
- Deuteronomy 6:8You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
- Deuteronomy 11:18"You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
- Isaiah 30:8And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
- Jeremiah 17:1"The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,
- Jeremiah 31:33For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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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