New English Translation
Proverbs 3:5
5Trust in 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 truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. 6Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight. 7Do not be wise in your own estimation; 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 confidence may be in the Lord, I am making them known to you today – even you.
- Job 13:15Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!
- Psalms 37:3Trust in the Lord and do what is right! Settle in the land and maintain your integrity!
- Psalms 62:8Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)
- Psalms 115:9O Israel, trust in the Lord! He is their deliverer and protector.
- Psalms 125:1Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion; it cannot be upended and will endure forever.
- Psalms 146:3Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!
- Isaiah 12:2Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer.”
- Isaiah 26:3You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith, for they trust in you.
- Jeremiah 17:7My blessing is on those people who trust in me, who put their confidence in me.
- Ephesians 1:12so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.
- Proverbs 3:7Do not be wise in your own estimation; fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
- Proverbs 23:4Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
- Proverbs 28:26The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.
- Jeremiah 9:23The Lord says, “Wise people should not boast that they are wise. Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. Rich people should not boast that they are rich.
- Jeremiah 10:23Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.
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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