God’s Word Translation
Proverbs 3:5
5Trust the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely 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;
- English Standard Version (ESV)Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
Context of Proverbs 3:5
3Do not let mercy and truth leave you. Fasten them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Then you will find favor and much success in the sight of God and humanity. Trust the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. 6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths smooth. 7Do not consider yourself wise. 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 22:19so that your trust may be in the Lord. Today I have made them known to you, especially to you.
- Job 13:15If God would kill me, I would have no hope ⌞left⌟. Nevertheless, I will defend my behavior to his face.
- Psalms 37:3Trust the Lord, and do good things. Live in the land, and practice being faithful.
- Psalms 62:8Trust him at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts in his presence. God is our refuge. Selah
- Psalms 115:9Israel, trust the Lord. He is your helper and your shield.
- Psalms 125:1Those who trust the Lord are like Mount Zion, which can never be shaken. It remains firm forever.
- Psalms 146:3Do not trust influential people, mortals who cannot help you.
- Isaiah 12:2Look! God is my Savior. I am confident and unafraid, because the Lord is my strength and my song. He is my Savior.”
- Isaiah 26:3With perfect peace you will protect those whose minds cannot be changed, because they trust you.
- Jeremiah 17:7Blessed is the person who trusts the Lord. The Lord will be his confidence.
- Ephesians 1:12He planned all of this so that we who had already focused our hope on Christ would praise him and give him glory.
- Proverbs 3:7Do not consider yourself wise. Fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
- Proverbs 23:4Do not wear yourself out getting rich. Be smart enough to stop.
- Proverbs 28:26Whoever trusts his own heart is a fool. Whoever walks in wisdom will survive.
- Jeremiah 9:23This is what the Lord says: Don’t let wise people brag about their wisdom. Don’t let strong people brag about their strength. Don’t let rich people brag about their riches.
- Jeremiah 10:23O Lord, I know that the way humans act is not under their control. Humans do not direct their steps as they walk.
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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