New English Translation
Proverbs 6:21
21Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
Proverbs 6:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
- New International Version (NIV)Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck.
Context of Proverbs 6:21
19a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members. 20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck. 22When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you. 23For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,
Read all of Proverbs 6Proverbs 6:21 word by word
קָשְׁרֵ֣ם עַל־לִבְּךָ֣ תָמִ֑יד עָ֝נְדֵ֗ם עַל־גַּרְגְּרֹתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 6:21
- Proverbs 3:3Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.
- Proverbs 7:3Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Exodus 13:16It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”
- Deuteronomy 6:8You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.
Commentaries on Proverbs 6:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21Bind them continually upon thine heart - See on Proverbs 3:3; (note). And see a similar command, to which this is an allusion, Deuteronomy 6:6-8; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21The thought of Proverbs 3:3 is carried step further. No outward charm, but the law of obedience, shall give safety to the traveler, when he sleeps or when he wakes.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-35Verses 20-35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-35This passage highlights the serious danger of having a relationship with another man's wife (see also Proverbs 1:8, 23; 2:16–22; 5:1–23; 7:1–27).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 20-2320-23. (Compare Pr 1:8; 3:3, &c.).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 6
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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